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Site description (2003 baseline):
Site location and context
Peak of Gunung Egon and Gunung Meak connected by. There is some of hotsprings in Gunung Egon, including one near Egon Blindit village.
One of the richest area and important for Flores. This area is one of the 6 locations where Wallace's Hanging-parrot
Loriculus flosculus live, the endemic bird of Flores and threatened by extinction. The feeding area of this species is tropical semi-evergreen forest, and the habitat is Lower monsoon mountain forest (
Eucalyptus urophylla). Wallace's Scopsowl
Otus silvicola is common in
Eucalyptus forest (Trainor & Lesmana 2000).
Non-bird biodiversity:
Lower monsoon mountain forest dominated by
Eucalyptus urophylla, tropical dry semi-evergreen forest and tropical dry deciduous forest (MacKinnon
et.al. 1982, Trainor & Lesmana 2000).This area used for buffer zone of Marine Recreation Park.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Timber cutting, road development plan and hunting activity (MacKinnon
et.al.1982, Trainor & Lesmana 2000).
Proposed as a Hunting Park (15000 ha) on altitude between 500-1700 m (MacKinnon
et.al.1982)
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Egon Ilimedo (Indonesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/egon-ilimedo-iba-indonesia on 22/11/2024.
