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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
Black-throated Coucal Centropus leucogaster	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Green Turaco Tauraco persa	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Red-legged Sparrowhawk Accipiter erythropus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
West African Pied Hornbill Lophoceros semifasciatus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Western Piping Hornbill Bycanistes fistulator	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Red-cheeked Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia blissetti	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Turati's Boubou Laniarius turatii	LC	resident	1997	present	A1, A3
Western Nicator Nicator chloris	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Green Crombec Sylvietta virens	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Lemon-bellied Crombec Sylvietta denti	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Leaf-love Pyrrhurus scandens	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Green Hylia Hylia prasina	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Rufous-winged Illadopsis Illadopsis rufescens	NT	resident	1997	present	A1, A2, A3
Chestnut-and-black Weaver Ploceus castaneofuscus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Crimson Seedcracker Pyrenestes sanguineus	LC	resident	1997	present	A3
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor	LC	resident	1997	present	A3

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

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1942	Gangan	Classified Forest	100

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest		59
Shrubland		34
Unknown		3
Artificial/Terrestrial		1

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	-
forestry	-
nature conservation and research	-
water management	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Gangan Foret Classe (Guinea). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/gangan-foret-classe-iba-guinea on 23/11/2024.