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The site was identified as important in 2001 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
Bioko Batis Batis poensis	LC	resident	2000	present	A2
Grey-necked Rockfowl Picathartes oreas	NT	resident	2000	present	A1, A2
Green Longtail Urolais epichlorus	LC	resident	2000	present	A2
White-tailed Warbler Poliolais lopezi	LC	resident	2000	present	A2
Mountain Saw-wing Psalidoprocne fuliginosa	LC	resident	2000	present	A1, A2
Western Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla tephrolaema	LC	resident	2000	present	A2
Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis	LC	resident	2000	present	A2
Black-capped Woodland-warbler Phylloscopus herberti	LC	resident	2000	present	A2
Cameroon Sunbird Cyanomitra oritis	LC	resident	2000	present	A2
Ursula's Sunbird Cinnyris ursulae	LC	resident	2000	present	A1, A2
Shelley's Oliveback Nesocharis shelleyi	LC	resident	2000	present	A2

The current IUCN Red List category may differ from that which was valid at the time of IBA criteria assessment (2001).

Protected area (PA)	PA designation	PA area (ha)	Relationship of PA with IBA	Overlap of PA with IBA (ha)
Caldera de Luba	Scientific Reserve	51,000	is identical to site	51,000

Habitat (IUCN level 1)	Habitat detail	Extent (% of site)
Artificial/Terrestrial		-
Unknown		-
Forest		-

For more information about the IUCN Habitat classification, please click here.

Land-use	Extent (% of site)
hunting	-
nature conservation and research	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Important Bird Area factsheet: Luba Caldera Scientific Reserve. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/luba-caldera-scientific-reserve-iba-equatorial-guinea on 01/10/2023.