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The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2000 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
Cretzschmar's Bunting Emberiza caesia	LC	breeding (1997)	common	B3, C6

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
1961	Parnitha	Ethnikos Drymos (pirinas) (II)	20
1976	Voutima Avlonas	Katafygio Agrias Zois (IV)	3
1988	Dasoktima Tato¿ou-Salonikis Loimikou-Synidioktito Dasos Gkoura-Parnithas	Katafygio Agrias Zois (IV)	58
1988	Dasoktima Tatoiou-Salonikis-Loimikou-Sinidioktito	Game Refuge (-)	52

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Forest	55	Native coniferous woodland
Shrubland	41	Sclerophyllous scrub, garrigue and maquis
Grassland	5	Steppes and dry calcareous grassland
Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks)	5	Inland cliffs

Land use	% of IBA
tourism/recreation	10
military	5
not utilised	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Mount Parnitha (Greece). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/mount-parnitha-iba-greece on 24/12/2024.