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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
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
Fischer's Turaco Tauraco fischeri	NT	resident	1997	present	A1, A2, A3
Ruff Calidris pugnax	LC	winter	1984	20,000 individuals	A4i
Southern Banded Snake-eagle Circaetus fasciolatus	NT	resident	1997	present	A1, A3
Eastern Chanting-goshawk Melierax poliopterus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
White-headed Mousebird Colius leucocephalus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill Tockus flavirostris	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Black-billed Woodhoopoe Phoeniculus somaliensis	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Mangrove Kingfisher Halcyon senegaloides	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
D'Arnaud's Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Brown-breasted Barbet Pogonornis melanopterus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Mombasa Woodpecker Campethera mombassica	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Red-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Pygmy Batis Batis perkeo	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
Chestnut-headed Sparrow-lark Eremopterix signatus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Red-winged Lark Mirafra hypermetra	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Ashy Cisticola Cisticola cinereolus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Fischer's Greenbul Phyllastrephus fischeri	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Little Yellow Flycatcher Erythrocercus holochlorus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Kenya White-eye Zosterops flavilateralis	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Rufous Chatterer Argya rubiginosa	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Scaly Chatterer Argya aylmeri	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Scaly Babbler Turdoides squamulata	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Golden-breasted Starling Lamprotornis regius	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Fischer's Starling Lamprotornis fischeri	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Black-bellied Starling Notopholia corusca	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus	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
Violet-breasted Sunbird Cinnyris chalcomelas	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Donaldson Smith's Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser donaldsoni	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Fire-fronted Bishop Euplectes diadematus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Golden Palm Weaver Ploceus bojeri	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Juba Weaver Ploceus dichrocephalus	LC	resident	1997	present	A2, A3
Black-cheeked Waxbill Brunhilda charmosyna	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Parrot-billed Sparrow Passer gongonensis	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Malindi Pipit Anthus melindae	LC	resident	1997	present	A1, A3
Pangani Longclaw Macronyx aurantiigula	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Golden Pipit Tmetothylacus tenellus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
A4iii Species group - waterbirds	n/a	non-breeding	1984	min 20,000 individuals	A4iii

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

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Far Waamo (Somalia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/far-waamo-iba-somalia on 22/11/2024.