Main Characteristics: Forest, mountain, immigration pass
Bird Species: It gains important bird areas status with Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) (20 pairs), Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) (20 pairs), Black Vulture (Aegypius monachus) (10 pairs), Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) (10 pairs), Caucasian Black Grouse (Tetrao mlokosiewiczi) (all Turkey population is within these important bird areas) and Caspian Snowcock (Tetraogallus caspius) populations. These important bird areas including seven regions had been investigated during a research performed on 1993, and a total of 134 mature male hus tavugu had been determined within six of them. When narrowness of the researched area and wideness of appropriate life environments are considered, it can be deemed that total number of Caucasian Black Grouse population within important bird areas exceeds 1000 pairs. But, discover of various important new immigration valley recently is showing that these numbers can be much more than deemed. Due to representation of Eurasia High Mountainous (Alpine) biomes within turkey by Eastern Black Sea Mountains, it is the only area which gained important bird areas status.
Matched category: A1, A3, A4iv, B1iiİ, B1iv, B2