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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
Blue-headed Wood-dove Turtur brehmeri	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Green Turaco Tauraco persa	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Congo Serpent-eagle Dryotriorchis spectabilis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus cassini	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Black Bee-eater Merops gularis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Western Black-headed Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia blissetti	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Western Crested-flycatcher Trochocercus nitens	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Red-bellied Paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Grey-necked Rockfowl Picathartes oreas	NT	resident	1999	present	A3
Western Nicator Nicator chloris	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Green Crombec Sylvietta virens	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica	LC	winter	-	1,000,000 individuals	A4ii
Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Baumann's Greenbul Phyllastrephus baumanni	LC	resident	1999	present	A1, A3
White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Green Hylia Hylia prasina	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Blue-shouldered Robin-chat Cossypha cyanocampter	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Red-vented Malimbe Malimbus scutatus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor	LC	resident	1999	present	A3

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

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest		45
Unknown		31
Artificial/Terrestrial		15
Shrubland		7

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	-
hunting	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Ebok-Kabaken (Nigeria). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/ebok-kabaken-iba-nigeria on 23/11/2024.