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The site was identified as important in 2008 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
Great Curassow Crax rubra	VU	resident	1995	present	A1
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus	NT	resident	1995	present	A1
Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla anabatina	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Lovely Cotinga Cotinga amabilis	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Nava's Wren Hylorchilus navai	VU	resident	1995	present	A1, A2, A3
Black-cowled Oriole Icterus prosthemelas	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Grey-throated Chat Granatellus sallaei	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Black-faced Grosbeak Caryothraustes poliogaster	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Black-throated Shrike-tanager Lanio aurantius	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Crimson-collared Tanager Ramphocelus sanguinolentus	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Ramphocelus passerinii	NR	resident	1995	present	A3

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2008) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1988	Sierra de Tabasco	Reserva Ecológica	19
2008	Cañón del Usumacinta	Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna	9

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest	Tropical semi-evergreen	58
Shrubland	Scrub	minor (<10)

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	41
rangeland/pastureland	-

Tenencia de la tierra: Ejidal, privada y federal.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Sierra de Tabasco (Mexico). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/sierra-de-tabasco-iba-mexico on 23/11/2024.