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The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2013 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 List	Season (year/s of estimate)	Size	IBA criteria
Persian Shearwater Puffinus persicus	LC	non-breeding (1983)	present	B2
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster	LC	breeding (2002)	min 6,250 pairs	A4ii, B1ii, B2
Sooty Gull Larus hemprichii	LC	non-breeding (1945)	common	B3
White-eyed Gull Larus leucophthalmus	LC	breeding (2002)	min 167 pairs	A1, B1i, B2
Sooty Falcon Falco concolor	VU	breeding (2002)	min 25 pairs	A1, B2
A4iii Species group - seabirds	n/a	breeding (2002)	min 6,700 pairs	A4iii

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2013. The most recent assessment (2013) is shown below.

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Human intrusions and disturbance	likely in long term (>4 years)	few indivi­duals/small area (<10%)	slow decline (1–10% over 3 gener­ations)	low

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Designation	Planning	Action	Result
Little/none of area covered (<10%)	No management planning has taken place	Not assessed	very low

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Desert	major (>10)
Marine Coastal/Supratidal	major (>10)
Marine Neritic	minor (<10)

Land use	% of IBA
not utilised	major (>10)
military	minor (<10)

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Zubayr group of islands (Yemen). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/zubayr-group-of-islands-iba-yemen on 23/12/2024.