Iran Ramsar wetland
Arzhan and Parishan Protected Area
48 bird species recorded; the most in April.
Farid Atar · CC BY 3.0
This month here
0 species in January.0 species in February.28 species in March.40 species in April.12 species in May.1 species in June.0 species in July.13 species in August.0 species in September.15 species in October.2 species in November.0 species in December.
The birds you are most likely to see in the month you choose, those that come for the season first. It opens on today's month.
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- Resident all year
- Summer visitor comes to breed
- Winter visitor comes for the winter
- Passage migrant in spring and autumn
In numbers
48 species, counted.
Our own rating, from the records only: species (50 points), threatened species (20), migrants (20) and protected status — Ramsar, IBA, SPA, observatory (10).
- 48Speciesrecorded more than once
- 17Migrantssummer, winter or passage visitors
- 1ThreatenedVulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered (IUCN)
- 238Recordsopen records within 6 km
- 1,534 mAltitudeabove the sea
- 3Raptors
- 2Waders
- 31Songbirds
- 12Other birds
From open records (eBird and others, through GBIF, licensed for any use). More birdwatchers mean more records: a quiet place may have more birds than it shows.
The checklist
All 48 species.
By group, with the year in twelve cells: the darker the cell, the more often the bird is recorded that month.
Raptors3 species
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- Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus
- Long-legged BuzzardButeo rufinus
- Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus
Waders2 species
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- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus
- Red-wattled LapwingVanellus indicus
Songbirds31 species
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- Sombre TitPoecile lugubris
- Crested larkGalerida cristata
- Great titParus major
- Eurasian JayGarrulus glandarius
- Hooded CrowCorvus cornix
- Eurasian MagpiePica pica
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- Hume's WheatearOenanthe albonigra
- Northern RavenCorvus corax
- Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus
- Woodchat ShrikeLanius senatorNT
- ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
- Western Rock NuthatchSitta neumayer
- Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaea
- White-eared BulbulPycnonotus leucotis
- Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula
- Lesser whitethroatSylvia curruca
- Eurasian Crag MartinPtyonoprogne rupestris
- Western Black-eared WheatearOenanthe hispanica
- Pale Crag MartinPtyonoprogne obsoleta
- Barn swallowHirundo rustica
- Eastern Rock NuthatchSitta tephronota
- Common House MartinDelichon urbicum
- Tawny PipitAnthus campestris
- White-throated robinIrania gutturalis
- Masked ShrikeLanius nubicus
- Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita
- European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis
- Finsch's WheatearOenanthe finschii
- Common RedstartPhoenicurus phoenicurus
- Black-headed buntingEmberiza melanocephala
Other birds12 species
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- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops
- European RollerCoracias garrulus
- Syrian WoodpeckerDendrocopos syriacus
- European Turtle DoveStreptopelia turturVU
- Laughing DoveSpilopelia senegalensis
- Middle Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocoptes medius
- Indian RollerCoracias benghalensisNT
- Asian Green Bee-eaterMerops orientalis
- Common Wood PigeonColumba palumbus
- Little SwiftApus affinis
- Pallid SwiftApus pallidus
Monthly presence relative to all bird records that month, so a busy month does not inflate every species.
When to go
The most species in April.
Species recorded in each month, with the usual temperature and rain.
- Jan12°/1°53 mm
- Feb14°/2°37 mm
- Mar19°/5°38 mm
- Apr24°/10°23 mm
- May31°/16°7 mm
- Jun37°/20°3 mm
- Jul39°/22°5 mm
- Aug38°/22°3 mm
- Sep34°/18°1 mm
- Oct28°/13°6 mm
- Nov19°/7°48 mm
- Dec14°/2°53 mm
- Bar: species recorded that month.
- Temperature: average maximum / minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Arzhan and Parishan Protected Area.
Protected area in Fars Province, Iran
Arzhan and Parishan Protected Area is a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in Iran, 1,534 m above the sea.
48 bird species have been recorded here more than once, in 238 open records.
The most recorded are the Sombre Tit, the Crested lark and the Great tit.
13 species come for the summer, 1 for the winter and 3 only pass through.
1 are threatened worldwide, including European Turtle Dove.
The most species are recorded in April.
Get there and watch
- Kāzerūnnearest town · 22 km in a straight line
- Shiraz Shahid Dastghaib International Airport (SYZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 69 km in a straight line
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The place and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the bird hides, towers and trails that OpenStreetMap shows.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- bird hides within 6 km
- observation towers within 6 km
- marked trails within 4 km
- visitor centres within 6 km
- viewpoints within 5 km
- car parks within 3 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- campsites within 10 km
- places to stay within 10 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
Around Arzhan and Parishan Protected Area.
The lakes, beaches, islands, rivers and mountains around this place, and its night sky, in the family's atlases.
Peakyas36 mountains within 25 kmMount Chah Barfi2,852 m · 3.6 kmMount Famur1,784 m · 7.0 kmMount Qarah Cheh1,250 m · 13 kmMount Bukhunag1,114 m · 16 kmMount Kuhnavard1,314 m · 20 kmMount Tang-e Zandun1,467 m · 22 kmMount Davan2,250 m · 24 kmKūh-e Zardgeh · 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 kmArzhan Lake14 km² · 8.8 kmParishan Lake39 km² · 12 km
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The place, as people saw it.
Other places nearby.
Arzhan and Parishan Protected Area
Iran
- 40Birdyas Score
- 48Species
- 17Migrants
- 1Threatened
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q22692991) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Birds | 238 open bird records within 6 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only; mostly eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Species | GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikidata (CC0); Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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