Data Zone
Country/territory: Portugal
IBA criteria met: A1, B2, C1, C6 (2002)
For more information about IBA criteria, please click here
Area: 15,733 hectares (157.33 km2)
| IBA conservation status | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment (most recent) | State (condition) | Pressure (threat) | Response (action) |
| 2005 | not assessed | low | not assessed |
| For more information about IBA monitoring, please click here | |||
Site description (2002 baseline)
Area located in Beira Baixa, in the council of Idanha -Nova, with a wide diversity of habitats that hold tipically steppic areas, open woodland of evergreen oak (Q. suber, Q. ilex) and mediterranean shrubland. This diversity of habitats causes curiouses specifications like Erithacus rubecula that only nests in north slopes.
Key biodiversity
The area supports a wide diversity of species of steppic and rupicolous habitat. 125 species have been registered in this place and 90 of them are breeding.This site is important for threatened raptors like Neophron percnopterus, Gyps fulvus, Aquila chrysaetus, Hieraaetus fasciatus and falco peregrinus. Here it is possible to found 18 raptor species of 24 that are in Portugal.The steppic habitats are important for Ciconia nigra, Otis tarda, Tetrax tetrax, Pterocles orientalis and Burhinus oedicnemus.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Serra de Penha Garcia e Campina de Toulões (Portugal). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/serra-de-penha-garcia-e-campina-de-toulões-iba-portugal on 22/12/2024.