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The site was identified as important in 2007 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
Greylag Goose Anser anser	LC	passage	1992-1998	500 individuals	B1i
Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus	VU	passage	1992-1998	200 individuals	A1
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula	LC	passage	1992-1998	500 individuals	B1i
Corncrake Crex crex	LC	breeding	1999	50 breeding pairs	A1
Eastern Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca	VU	breeding	1992-1998	2-4 breeding pairs	A1

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2007) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1972	Gornyi sosnyak	Nature Monument	-
1976	Ten'kovskiy	Zakaznik	8
1978	Reka Birlya	Nature Monument	3
1978	Reka Sviyaga	Nature Monument	7
2007	Great Volzhsko-Kamsky/Raifa Forest / Great Volzhsko-Kamsky (part of)/Sarali Land between Rivers / Great Volzhsko-Kamsky (part of)/Spassky / Great Volzhsko-Kamsky (part of)/Sviyazhsky / Great Volzhsko-Kamsky (part of)	UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve	2

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable land, Urban parks and gardens	66
Grassland	Humid grasslands, Steppes and dry calcareous grassland	15
Forest	Broadleaved deciduous woodland, Native coniferous woodland, Alluvial and very wet forest	14
Wetlands (inland)	Standing freshwater, Rivers and streams, Water fringe vegetation	3

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
unknown	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Sviyago-Kubninskaya forest-steppe (Russia (European)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/sviyago-kubninskaya-forest-steppe-iba-russia-(european) on 22/11/2024.