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The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2001 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species') at the site:

Species	Red List	Season (year/s of estimate)	Size	IBA criteria
Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
White-bellied Go-away-bird Criniferoides leucogaster	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
White-headed Mousebird Colius leucocephalus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Red-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Three-streaked Tchagra Tchagra jamesi	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Scaly Chatterer Argya aylmeri	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Shelley's Starling Lamprotornis shelleyi	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
White-crowned Starling Lamprotornis albicapillus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Black-capped Social-Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Somali Sparrow Passer castanopterus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3

Land use	% of IBA
unknown	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Laag Dheere (Somalia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/laag-dheere-iba-somalia on 23/12/2024.