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Yarlung Zangbo Daxiagu Nature Reserve


IBA Justification

The site was identified as important in 2009 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
Sichuan Partridge Arborophila rufipectus VU resident 2004 present A1, A3
Chestnut-throated Partridge Tetraophasis obscurus LC resident 2003 present A3
Sclater's Monal Lophophorus sclateri LC resident 2004 present A1, A2, A3
Blyth's Tragopan Tragopan blythii VU resident 2004 present A1, A2, A3
Chinese Grouse Tetrastes sewerzowi NT resident 2003 present A3
Black-necked Crane Grus nigricollis NT winter 2003 present A1
Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola VU breeding 2003 present A1, A3
Ward's Trogon Harpactes wardi LC resident 2003 present A2, A3
Rufous-necked Hornbill Aceros nipalensis VU resident 2004 present A1, A3
Saker Falcon Falco cherrug EN resident 2003 present A1
White-naped Yuhina Yuhina bakeri LC resident 2003 present A2, A3
Beautiful Sibia Heterophasia pulchella LC resident 2003 present A2, A3
Streak-throated Barwing Sibia waldeni LC resident 2003 present A2, A3
White-throated Bushchat Saxicola insignis VU passage 2004 present A1, A3

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2009) may differ.


IBA Protection

Year Protected Area Designation % overlap with IBA
- Yaluzangbudaxiagu Nature Reserve 100


Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Yarlung Zangbo Daxiagu Nature Reserve (China (mainland)). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/yarlung-zangbo-daxiagu-nature-reserve-iba-china-(mainland) on 22/11/2024.