Kulikalon Lakes

The lakes and their surrounds have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA).

They are fed by meltwater from the Chimtarga glacier, with water levels peaking in summer, and are drained by the Artuch River.

The area contains the largest remaining blocks of juniper forest in the western half of the Zeravshan Range, on the edge of the Chimtarga massif.

[1] The site was classified as an IBA because it supports significant numbers of the populations of various bird species, either as residents, or as breeding or passage migrants.

These include Himalayan snowcocks, saker falcons, Himalayan vultures, solitary snipe, yellow-billed choughs, Hume's larks, sulphur-bellied warblers, wallcreepers, white-winged redstarts, brown accentors, water pipits, crimson-winged finches and white-winged grosbeaks.