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The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2007 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
Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax	NT	breeding (1991)	10–50 pairs	A1
Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus	LC	breeding (1991)	5–15 pairs	B2
Levant Sparrowhawk Accipiter brevipes	LC	breeding (1998)	30–50 pairs	B2
White-tailed Sea-eagle Haliaeetus albicilla	LC	resident (1998)	5–7 pairs	A1

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
-	Rostovskoe GOOH (Veshenskiy uchastok)	Managed Resource Protected Area (VI)	23
1980	Dubrovskiy	Zakaznik (IV)	66
1981	Bykovskiy	Zakaznik (IV)	4

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Grassland	50	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland; Humid grasslands
Artificial/Terrestrial	30	Arable land; Forestry plantations
Forest	10	Broadleaved deciduous woodland; Alluvial and very wet forest
Shrubland	10	Scrub

Land use	% of IBA
hunting	70
rangeland/pastureland	60
forestry	35
nature conservation and research	30
agriculture	5

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Migulinskiye sands (Russia (European)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/migulinskiye-sands-iba-russia-(european) on 28/12/2024.