• Summary
• Text account
• Data table and detailed info
• Map
• Reference and further resources

The site was identified as important in 1996 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species'):

Species	Current IUCN Red List Category	Season	Year(s)	Population estimate at site	IBA criteria met
Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Yellow-necked Francolin Pternistis leucoscepus	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
White-winged Collared-dove Streptopelia reichenowi	NT	resident	1996	present	A1, A2, A3
Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
White-bellied Go-away-bird Criniferoides leucogaster	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Ruspoli's Turaco Tauraco ruspolii	NT	resident	1996	present	A3
Eastern Chanting-goshawk Melierax poliopterus	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus flavirostris	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Black-billed Woodhoopoe Phoeniculus somaliensis	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Red-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Pringle's Puffback Dryoscopus pringlii	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Three-streaked Tchagra Tchagra jamesi	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Red-naped Bush-shrike Laniarius ruficeps	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Rosy-patched Bush-shrike Rhodophoneus cruentus	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Somali Fiscal Lanius somalicus	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Somali Tit Melaniparus thruppi	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Mouse-coloured Penduline-tit Anthoscopus musculus	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Somali Crombec Sylvietta isabellina	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Yellow-vented Eremomela Eremomela flavicrissalis	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Grey Wren-warbler Calamonastes simplex	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Boran Cisticola Cisticola bodessa	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Tiny Cisticola Cisticola nana	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Pale Prinia Prinia somalica	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Banded Warbler Curruca boehmi	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Kenya White-eye Zosterops flavilateralis	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Rufous Chatterer Argya rubiginosa	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Magpie Starling Speculipastor bicolor	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Shelley's Starling Lamprotornis shelleyi	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Golden-breasted Starling Lamprotornis regius	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Bare-eyed Thrush Turdus tephronotus	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Hunter's Sunbird Chalcomitra hunteri	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Black-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris nectarinioides	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
White-headed Buffalo-weaver Dinemellia dinemelli	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Black-capped Social-weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Juba Weaver Ploceus dichrocephalus	LC	resident	1996	present	A2, A3
Purple Grenadier Granatina ianthinogaster	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Grey-headed Silverbill Odontospiza griseicapilla	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata	LC	resident	1996	present	A3
Somali Bunting Emberiza poliopleura	LC	resident	1996	present	A3

The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (1996).

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
agriculture	-
urban/industrial/transport	-
other	-

---

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Dawa - Wachile. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/dawa--wachile-iba-ethiopia on 04/12/2023.