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The site was identified as important in 2016 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 List1	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
Swan Goose Anser cygnoid	EN	breeding	1970	rare	A1
Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus	EN	passage	1995	rare	A1
Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus	LC	winter	1998	min 500 individuals	A4i
Baer's Pochard Aythya baeri	CR	breeding	1995	uncommon	A1, A3
Baikal Teal Sibirionetta formosa	LC	passage	1970	uncommon	A1
Falcated Duck Mareca falcata	LC	passage	1998	2,000-5,000 individuals	A4i
Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus	LC	passage	1998	min 400 individuals	A4i
White-naped Crane Grus vipio	VU	passage	1993	min 300 individuals	A1, A4i
Red-crowned Crane Grus japonensis	VU	passage	1993	min 250 individuals	A1, A4i
Oriental Stork Ciconia boyciana	EN	passage	1995	rare	A1
Schrenck's Bittern Ixobrychus eurhythmus	LC	breeding	1996	common	A3
Chinese Egret Egretta eulophotes	VU	breeding	1998	uncommon	A1
Japanese Cormorant Phalacrocorax capillatus	LC	breeding	2000	min 2,396 individuals	A4i
Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus	NT	passage	1998	min 650 individuals	A4i
Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea	CR	passage	1983	rare	A1
Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia	LC	passage	1998	min 650 individuals	A4i
Spotted Greenshank Tringa guttifer	EN	passage	1983	rare	A1
Black-tailed Gull Larus crassirostris	LC	breeding	1982-1993	33,490-42,500 breeding pairs	A4i
Spectacled Guillemot Cepphus carbo	LC	breeding	1982-1993	1,242-1,650 breeding pairs	A4ii
Steller's Sea-eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus	VU	winter	1995	uncommon	A1
Japanese Bush-warbler Horornis diphone	LC	breeding	1996	common	A3
Jankowski's Bunting Emberiza jankowskii	EN	breeding	1998	present	A1, A3
Ochre-rumped Bunting Emberiza yessoensis	NT	breeding	1996	frequent	A3
A4iii Species group - waterbirds	n/a	breeding	1993	min 73,440 individuals	A4iii

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2016) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
-	Yacheistye skaly	Nature Monument	-
-	Name Unknown, site No. 277 (Primorskiy kray)	Nature Monument	-
-	Lesnye kul'tury kedra koreyskogo	Nature Monument	-
-	Priostrovnye akvatorii zaliva Petra Velikogo	Nature Monument	-
1974	Buhty zaliva Pos'eta	Nature Monument	-
1978	Dalnevostochny Morskoy / Far East Marine	Zapovednik	10
1984	Ostrova Karamzina i Verhovskogo	Nature Monument	-
1984	Kekury Zhaba i Tjulen'	Nature Monument	-
1984	Obnazhenie Lazurnoe	Nature Monument	-
1989	Geologicheskiy razrez Chernyshevskiy	Nature Monument	-
1989	Geologicheskiy razrez Aniziyskiy	Nature Monument	-
1989	Geologicheskiy razrez Tobizinskiy	Nature Monument	-
1997	Hasanskiy	Nature Park	34
2003	Far East Marine	UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve	30

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest	Mixed broadleaf-coniferous forest (temp/boreal	major (>10)
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		major (>10)
Marine Intertidal		major (>10)
Marine Neritic		major (>10)

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Lower Tumen river (Russia (Asian)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/lower-tumen-river-iba-russia-(asian) on 22/11/2024.