Seventeen Important Bird Areas (IBAs) have been designated in Mali, encompassing an area of (about 2.3% of the surface area of the country). Ten include wetlands, nine are in the Inner Delta of the Niger river (key bird area), four (under the A3 criterion) include the Sudan–Guinea ecoregion of the Savanna biome, four are in the Sahel biome, and two in the Sahara–Sindian biome. The Kulicoro firefinch, also known as the Mali firefinch ("Lagonostica virata"), is the only endemic bird of Mali, found in rocky and grassy areas near Mopti and Bamako.