Yapen is an island lying in Geelvink bay (see EBA 174; also for map) and is part of the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya. It rises to 1,430 m and was once an outlying range of the New Guinea mainland. It qualifies as a Secondary Area because of the two restricted-range species which occur there but which do not clearly identify it with another single EBA, although each of them occurs in three different EBAs on the mainland: Spice Imperial-pigeon Ducula myristicivora and Green-backed Robin Pachycephalopsis hattamensis.

Stattersfield, A. J., Crosby, M. J., Long, A. J. and Wege, D. C. (1998) Endemic Bird Areas of the World. Priorities for biodiversity conservation. BirdLife Conservation Series 7. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.

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BirdLife International (2024) Endemic Bird Area factsheet: Yapen. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/eba/factsheet/412 on 30/12/2024.