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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.

Populations meeting IBA criteria ('trigger species') at the site:

Species	Red List	Season (year/s of estimate)	Size	IBA criteria
Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Cameroon Olive-pigeon Columba sjostedti	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
Blue-headed Wood-dove Turtur brehmeri	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Green Turaco Tauraco persa	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
White-crested Turaco Tauraco leucolophus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Violet Turaco Musophaga violacea	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Cassin's Hawk-eagle Aquila africana	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Eastern Piping Hornbill Bycanistes sharpii	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Black Bee-eater Merops gularis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Eastern Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Western Green Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta	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
Cassin's Honeybird Prodotiscus insignis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Fox Kestrel Falco alopex	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Senegal Parrot Poicephalus senegalus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Western Black-headed Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Petit's Cuckooshrike Campephaga petiti	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
African Shrike-flycatcher Megabyas flammulatus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Yellow-breasted Boubou Laniarius atroflavus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
Mountain Sooty Boubou Laniarius poensis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Red-bellied Paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Emin's Shrike Lanius gubernator	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Yellow-billed Shrike Lanius corvinus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Piapiac Ptilostomus afer	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
White-bellied Crested-flycatcher Elminia albiventris	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Western Nicator Nicator chloris	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Green Crombec Sylvietta virens	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Senegal Eremomela Eremomela pusilla	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Green Longtail Urolais epichlorus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
Black-collared Apalis Oreolais pulcher	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Oriole Warbler Hypergerus atriceps	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Rufous Cisticola Cisticola rufus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
Bangwa Warbler Bradypterus bangwaensis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A1, A2, A3
Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Fanti Saw-wing Psalidoprocne obscura	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Grey-headed Bristlebill Bleda canicapillus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Cameroon Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla montana	LC	resident (1999)	present	A1, A2, A3
Western Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla tephrolaema	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Leaf-love Pyrrhurus scandens	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Black-capped Woodland-warbler Phylloscopus herberti	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
Green Hylia Hylia prasina	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Rwenzori Hill-babbler Sylvia atriceps	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Black-capped Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Puvel's Illadopsis Illadopsis puveli	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Blackcap Babbler Turdoides reinwardtii	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Crossley's Ground-thrush Geokichla crossleyi	LC	resident (1999)	present	A1, A3
Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Ussher's Flycatcher Artomyias ussheri	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Dusky Blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Mountain Robin-chat Cossyphicula isabellae	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
White-crowned Robin-chat Cossypha albicapillus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
White-fronted Black-chat Oenanthe albifrons	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Grey-chested Kakamega Kakamega poliothorax	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Cameroon Sunbird Cyanomitra oritis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Splendid Sunbird Cinnyris coccinigastrus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Bannerman's Weaver Ploceus bannermani	VU	resident (1999)	present	A1, A2, A3
Black-billed Weaver Ploceus melanogaster	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Bar-breasted Firefinch Lagonosticta rufopicta	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Grey Firefinch Lagonosticta nigricollis	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Yellow-winged Pytilia Pytilia hypogrammica	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Dybowski's Twinspot Euschistospiza dybowskii	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Lavender Waxbill Glaucestrilda coerulescens	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Shelley's Oliveback Nesocharis shelleyi	LC	resident (1999)	present	A2, A3
Grey-headed Oliveback Delacourella capistrata	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Exclamatory Paradise-whydah Vidua interjecta	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Sahel Bush-sparrow Gymnoris dentata	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3
Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni	LC	resident (1999)	present	A3

Ideally the conservation status of the IBA will have been checked regularly since the site was first identified in 2001. The most recent assessment (2019) is shown below.

State (condition of the trigger species' habitats)
Habitat	Quantity (% remaining)	Quality (% carrying capacity)	Result
Forest	moderate (70–90%)	moderate (70–90%)	poor

Pressure (threats to the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Threat	Timing	Scope	Severity	Result
Human intrusions and disturbance	happe­ning now	some of popul­ation/area (10–49%)	moderate decline (10–30% over 3 gener­ations)	high

Response (conservation actions taken for the trigger species and/or their habitats)
Designation	Planning	Action	Result
Most of area (50–90%) covered (including the most critical parts for important bird species)	A management plan exists, but it is out of date or not compre­hensive	Substantive conservation measures are being implemented, but these are not compre­hensive and are limited by resources and capacity	medium

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
1991	Gashaka-Gumti	National Park (II)	100

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Forest	73
Savanna	22
Shrubland	3

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	-
nature conservation and research	-
tourism/recreation	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Gashaka-Gumti National Park (Nigeria). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/gashaka-gumti-national-park-iba-nigeria on 22/12/2024.