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.
| Species |
Red List |
Season (year/s of estimate) |
Size |
IBA criteria |
| Green Turaco Tauraco persa |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Pale-throated Barbet Gymnobucco vernayi |
VU |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Gabela Helmetshrike Prionops gabela |
EN |
resident (1975) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Black-necked Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia chalybea |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| White-fronted Wattle-eye Platysteira albifrons |
NT |
resident (1998) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Monteiro's Bushshrike Malaconotus monteiri |
NT |
resident (1998) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Gabela Bushshrike Laniarius amboimensis |
EN |
resident (1992) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Western Crested-flycatcher Trochocercus nitens |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Rufous-vented Paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufocinerea |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Dusky Tit Melaniparus funereus |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Yellow-throated Nicator Nicator vireo |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Green Crombec Sylvietta virens |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Bubbling Cisticola Cisticola bulliens |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Falkenstein's Greenbul Chlorocichla falkensteini |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Pale-olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus fulviventris |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Angola Greenbul Phyllastrephus viridiceps |
NT |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Green Hylia Hylia prasina |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Rufous Flycatcher-thrush Stizorhina fraseri |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Forest Scrub-robin Tychaedon leucosticta |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Angola Cave-chat Xenocopsychus ansorgei |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Gabela Akalat Sheppardia gabela |
EN |
resident (1992) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Carmelite Sunbird Chalcomitra fuliginosa |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Superb Sunbird Cinnyris superbus |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Dusky Twinspot Euschistospiza cinereovinacea |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
| Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii |
LC |
resident (1998) |
present |
A3 |
