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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
Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus	LC	non-breeding	1995	present	A3
White-eared Hummingbird Basilinna leucotis	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Flammulated Owl Psiloscops flammeolus	LC	passage	1995	present	A3
Whiskered Screech-owl Megascops trichopsis	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis	NT	resident	1995	present	A1
Eared Quetzal Euptilotis neoxenus	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Cordilleran Flycatcher Empidonax occidentalis	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Pine Flycatcher Empidonax affinis	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Aztec Thrush Ridgwayia pinicola	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Russet Nightingale-thrush Catharus occidentalis	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Olive Warbler Peucedramus taeniatus	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Striped Sparrow Oriturus superciliosus	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Black-backed Oriole Icterus abeillei	LC	breeding	1995	present	A3
Crescent-chested Warbler Oreothlypis superciliosa	LC	resident	1995	present	A3
Red-faced Warbler Cardellina rubrifrons	LC	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
2002	Cuenca Alimentadora del Distrito Nacional de Riego 043 Estado de Nayarit	Área de Protección de los Recursos Naturales	47

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest	Pine, Pine-oak, Tropical coniferous	87
Savanna		9

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	1
rangeland/pastureland	1

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Sierra de Valparaíso (Mexico). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/sierra-de-valparaíso-iba-mexico on 22/11/2024.