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The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation 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 List	Season (year/s of estimate)	Size	IBA criteria
White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala	EN	resident (2009)	min 14 pairs	A1, B1i, B2, C1, C2
Black Stork Ciconia nigra	LC	passage (1997)	20 birds	B1i, C2
Common Little Bittern Ixobrychus minutus	LC	breeding (1996)	6 pairs	C6
Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii	VU	passage (1996)	227–412 birds	A1, C1

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
1989	Desembocadura del Guadalhorce	Paraje Natural (II)	29

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

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 25/12/2024.