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The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation 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 List	Season (year/s of estimate)	Size	IBA criteria
Vulturine Guineafowl Acryllium vulturinum	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Buff-crested Bustard Lophotis gindiana	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
White-bellied Go-away-bird Criniferoides leucogaster	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Eastern Chanting-goshawk Melierax poliopterus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Abyssinian Scimitarbill Rhinopomastus minor	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Three-streaked Tchagra Tchagra jamesi	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Long-tailed Fiscal Lanius cabanisi	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Taita Fiscal Lanius dorsalis	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Hunter's Sunbird Chalcomitra hunteri	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Black-capped Social-Weaver Pseudonigrita cabanisi	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Fire-fronted Bishop Euplectes diadematus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3
Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus	LC	resident (1997)	present	A3

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Boja swamps (Somalia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/boja-swamps-iba-somalia on 23/12/2024.