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The site was identified as important in 2011 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
White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala	EN	resident	2009	min 14 breeding pairs	A1, B1i, B2, C1, C2
Black Stork Ciconia nigra	LC	passage	1997	20 individuals	B1i, C2
Common Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus	LC	breeding	1996	6 breeding pairs	C6
Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii	VU	passage	1996	227-412 individuals	A1, C1

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2011) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1989	Desembocadura del Guadalhorce	Paraje Natural	29

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land, Forestry plantations	55
Marine Coastal/Supratidal		25
Grassland	Humid grasslands, Mesophile grasslands	10
Forest	Alluvial and very wet forest	5
Shrubland	Scrub	5
Marine Intertidal		-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	55

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Mouth of the river Guadalhorce (Spain). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/mouth-of-the-river-guadalhorce-iba-spain on 23/11/2024.