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.

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BirdLife International (2024) Endemic Bird Area factsheet: Yapen. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/eba/factsheet/412 on 22/11/2024.