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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') at the site:

Species	Red List1	Season	Year(s)	Size	IBA criteria
White-breasted Guineafowl Agelastes meleagrides	VU	resident	2000	present	A1, A2, A3
Forest Francolin Peliperdix lathami	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Blue-headed Wood-dove Turtur brehmeri	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Yellow-throated Cuckoo Chrysococcyx flavigularis	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx mechowi	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Nkulengu Rail Himantornis haematopus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
White-crested Tiger-heron Tigriornis leucolopha	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Red-legged Sparrowhawk Accipiter erythropus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Eastern Dwarf Hornbill Horizocerus granti	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
West African Pied Hornbill Lophoceros semifasciatus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Western Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Blue-moustached Bee-eater Merops mentalis	NT	resident	2000	present	A3
African Dwarf-kingfisher Ispidina lecontei	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Western Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus goffinii	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Bristle-nosed Barbet Gymnobucco peli	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Lyre-tailed Honeyguide Melichneutes robustus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Fire-bellied Woodpecker Dendropicos pyrrhogaster	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Grey Parrot Psittacus erithacus	EN	resident	2000	present	A3
Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Western Black-headed Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Red-billed Helmetshrike Prionops caniceps	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
West African Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia hormophora	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Red-bellied Paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Dusky Crested-flycatcher Elminia nigromitrata	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Green Crombec Sylvietta virens	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Rufous-crowned Eremomela Eremomela badiceps	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Sharpe's Apalis Apalis sharpii	NT	resident	2000	present	A2, A3
Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Western Bearded Greenbul Criniger barbatus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Yellow-bearded Greenbul Criniger olivaceus	VU	resident	2000	present	A1, A2, A3
Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Green Hylia Hylia prasina	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Tit-hylia Pholidornis rushiae	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens	NT	resident	2000	present	A1, A2, A3
Copper-tailed Starling Hylopsar cupreocauda	NT	resident	2000	present	A1, A2, A3
White-tailed Ant-thrush Neocossyphus poensis	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Little Grey Flycatcher Muscicapa epulata	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
White-browed Forest-flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
African Forest-flycatcher Fraseria ocreata	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Orange-breasted Forest-robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Yellow-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes rectirostris	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Buff-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra adelberti	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Maxwell's Black Weaver Ploceus albinucha	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Preuss's Weaver Ploceus preussi	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Cassin's Malimbe Malimbus cassini	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor	LC	resident	2000	present	A3

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2001) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1968	Boin Tano	Forest Reserve	100

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest		84
Unknown		10
Artificial/Terrestrial		5

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
forestry	-
water management	-
other	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Boin Tano Forest Reserve (Ghana). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/boin-tano-forest-reserve-iba-ghana on 23/11/2024.