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 |
| Cameroon Olive-pigeon Columba sjostedti |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| White-naped Pigeon Columba albinucha |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A3 |
| Fiery-necked Nightjar Caprimulgus pectoralis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Scarce Swift Schoutedenapus myoptilus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx olivinus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Whistling Long-tailed Cuckoo Cercococcyx lemaireae |
NT |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| White-spotted Flufftail Sarothrura pulchra |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Green Turaco Tauraco persa |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Yellow-billed Turaco Tauraco macrorhynchus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Sjostedt's Owlet Glaucidium sjostedti |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Fraser's Eagle-owl Bubo poensis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Congo Serpent-eagle Dryotriorchis spectabilis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Cassin's Hawk-eagle Aquila africana |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus |
NT |
winter (2000) |
rare |
A1 |
| Bar-tailed Trogon Apaloderma vittatum |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus cassini |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Black Bee-eater Merops gularis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| African Dwarf-kingfisher Ispidina lecontei |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| White-bellied Kingfisher Corythornis leucogaster |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Eastern Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Western Green Tinkerbird Pogoniulus coryphaea |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Hairy-breasted Barbet Tricholaema hirsuta |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Eastern Yellow-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Zenker's Honeyguide Melignomon zenkeri |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| African Piculet Verreauxia africana |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Tullberg's Woodpecker Campethera tullbergi |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Gabon Woodpecker Dendropicos gabonensis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Grey-headed Broadbill Smithornis sharpei |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Western Black-headed Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Grey Cuckooshrike Ceblepyris caesius |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Petit's Cuckooshrike Campephaga petiti |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Black-necked Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia chalybea |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Fiery-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus cruentus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Green-breasted Bushshrike Malaconotus gladiator |
VU |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Red-eyed Puffback Dryoscopus senegalensis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Bocage's Bushshrike Chlorophoneus bocagei |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Yellow-breasted Boubou Laniarius atroflavus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| Mountain Sooty Boubou Laniarius poensis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Western Crested-flycatcher Trochocercus nitens |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Rufous-vented Paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufocinerea |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Red-bellied Paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Grey-necked Rockfowl Picathartes oreas |
NT |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| White-bellied Crested-flycatcher Elminia albiventris |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Yellow-throated Nicator Nicator vireo |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Green Crombec Sylvietta virens |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Yellow Longbill Macrosphenus flavicans |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Green Longtail Urolais epichlorus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| Masked Apalis Apalis binotata |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Black-capped Apalis Apalis nigriceps |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| White-tailed Warbler Poliolais lopezi |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Chubb's Cisticola Cisticola chubbi |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| Bangwa Warbler Bradypterus bangwaensis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Square-tailed Saw-wing Psalidoprocne nitens |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Cameroon Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla montana |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Western Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla tephrolaema |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Ansorge's Greenbul Eurillas ansorgei |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Grey-headed Greenbul Phyllastrephus poliocephalus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Cameroon Olive Greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| Black-capped Woodland-warbler Phylloscopus herberti |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| Green Hylia Hylia prasina |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Brown Illadopsis Illadopsis fulvescens |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Black-capped Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| White-throated Mountain-babbler Kupeornis gilberti |
VU |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Narrow-tailed Starling Poeoptera lugubris |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Purple-headed Starling Hylopsar purpureiceps |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| White-tailed Ant-thrush Neocossyphus poensis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Rufous Flycatcher-thrush Stizorhina fraseri |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Crossley's Ground-thrush Geokichla crossleyi |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A3 |
| Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Yellow-footed Flycatcher Muscicapa sethsmithi |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Dusky Blue Flycatcher Bradornis comitatus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| African Forest-flycatcher Fraseria ocreata |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Mountain Robin-chat Cossyphicula isabellae |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| White-bellied Robin-chat Cossyphicula roberti |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Grey-chested Kakamega Kakamega poliothorax |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Grey-chinned Sunbird Anthreptes tephrolaemus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Cameroon Sunbird Cyanomitra oritis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| Green-throated Sunbird Chalcomitra rubescens |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Northern Double-collared Sunbird Cinnyris reichenowi |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Ursula's Sunbird Cinnyris ursulae |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Baglafecht Weaver Ploceus baglafecht |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Bannerman's Weaver Ploceus bannermani |
VU |
resident (2000) |
present |
A1, A2, A3 |
| Black-billed Weaver Ploceus melanogaster |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Brown-capped Weaver Ploceus insignis |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Red-faced Crimsonwing Cryptospiza reichenovii |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Shelley's Oliveback Nesocharis shelleyi |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A2, A3 |
| White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Pale-fronted Nigrita Nigrita luteifrons |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Woodhouse's Antpecker Parmoptila woodhousei |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Oriole Finch Linurgus olivaceus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Thick-billed Seedeater Crithagra burtoni |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
