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Site description (2003 baseline):
Site location and context
Gunung Niut (1709 m) is an old volcano, located near Sarawak (border between Indonesia and Malaysia in West Kalimantan).
The information about bird in this area based on 10 days observation in 1987 by Prieme & Heegard (1988). Mountain Barbet
Megalaima munticola (350 m longer than the distribution detected before), and also Black-breasted Fruit-hunter
Chlamydochaera jefferyi, Mountain Wren-babbler
Nopothera crassa and
Mountain Tailorbird
Orthotomus cuculatus (500-700 km longer than the distribution detected before). Bonaparte's Nightjar
Caprimulgus concreatus has found in lowland forest, and one of three observers recorded in Kalimantan last decade.Birds species in Perissen Mountain range and Poi Mountain range probably present in this area (Smythies 1981), like Long-billed partridge
Rhizothera longirostris, Bornean Wren-babbler
Ptilocichla leucogramica, Chestnut-capped Laughingthrush
Garrulax mitratus, White-browed Shrike-babbler
Pteruthius flaviscapis, Pale Blue-flycatcher
Cyornis unicolor, Bornean Blue-flycatcher
Cyornis superbus, Rufous-tailed Jungle-flycatcher
Rhinomyias ruficauda, Everett's White-eye
Zosterops everetti, Pygmy White-eye
Oculocincta squamifrons.
Non-bird biodiversity: Tupaia gracilis, Tupaia montana, Tupaia splendidula, Hylobates muelleri, Nasalis larvatus,Presbytis rubicunda, Muntiacus atherodes, Pongo pygmeus, Helarctos malayanus and Neofelis nebulosa (MacKinnon et.al, 1996)This area has important botanical value in Kalimantan in NCP (FAO 1982)
Lower mountain forest (probably upper mountain forest also present), and at lower slope probably there is no Dipterocarpacea forest and heath forest anymore, some part of the area still covered with lowland forest.Around 60% of this area covered by lowland forest, 10% upper mountain forest and secondary vegetation, & shifting agriculture.About 70% of this area are used for conservation and watershed management, and the remaining area is used for shifting agriculture activity.
Pressure/threats to key biodiversity
Land conversion, illegal logging, animal hunting and infrastructure development.
Nature Reserve (140000 ha) (Anon 1995). Declared on 21 July 1982 as Wildlife Sanctuary (180000 ha) based on SK No. 529/Kpts/Um/7/1982 (Anon 1995).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Gunung Niut-Poteng (Indonesia). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/gunung-niut-poteng-iba-indonesia on 23/12/2024.
