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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
Finsch's Francolin Scleroptila finschi	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Gabon Coucal Centropus anselli	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Whistling Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx lemaireae	NT	resident	1999	present	A3
White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Green Turaco Tauraco persa	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Spot-breasted Ibis Bostrychia rara	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Vermiculated Fishing-owl Scotopelia bouvieri	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus cassini	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Black-headed Bee-eater Merops breweri	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Rosy Bee-eater Merops malimbicus	LC	breeding	1999	present	A3
Black Bee-eater Merops gularis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
African Dwarf-kingfisher Ispidina lecontei	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Grey Parrot Psittacus erithacus	EN	resident	1999	present	A3
Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Western Crested-flycatcher Trochocercus nitens	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Bates's Paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone batesi	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Western Nicator Nicator chloris	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Green Crombec Sylvietta virens	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
Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Yellow-eyed Bristlebill Bleda ugandae	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Leaf-love Pyrrhurus scandens	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Green Hylia Hylia prasina	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Rufous Flycatcher-thrush Stizorhina fraseri	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
White-browed Forest-flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
African Forest-flycatcher Fraseria ocreata	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Violet-tailed Sunbird Anthreptes aurantius	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Congo Sunbird Cinnyris congensis	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Johanna's Sunbird Cinnyris johannae	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Black-chinned Weaver Ploceus nigrimentus	LC	resident	-	present	A1
Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Pale-fronted Nigrita Nigrita luteifrons	LC	resident	1999	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
1951	Léfini	Réserve de Faune	100
1963	Léfini	Domaine de protection absolue	2
2009	Lessio-Louna	Sanctuaire à gorille	26

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Shrubland		38
Grassland		32
Forest		25
Artificial/Terrestrial		2

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Léfini Faunal Reserve (Congo). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/léfini-faunal-reserve-iba-congo on 25/11/2024.