SS012
Nimule


IBA Justification

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
Heuglin's Spurfowl Pternistis icterorhynchus LC resident 1999 present A3
White-crested Turaco Tauraco leucolophus LC resident 1999 present A3
Red-throated Bee-eater Merops bulocki LC resident 1999 present A3
Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster LC resident 1999 present A3
Black-breasted Barbet Pogonornis rolleti LC resident 1999 present A3
Speckle-breasted Woodpecker Dendropicos poecilolaemus LC resident 1999 present A3
Fox Kestrel Falco alopex 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
Sun Lark Galerida modesta LC resident 1999 present A3
Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela canescens LC resident 1999 present A3
Red-winged Grey Warbler Drymocichla incana LC resident 1999 present A3
Foxy Cisticola Cisticola troglodytes LC resident 1999 present A3
Dusky Babbler Turdoides tenebrosa LC resident 1999 present A3
Purple Starling Lamprotornis purpureus LC resident 1999 present A3
Bronze-tailed Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus LC resident 1999 present A3
White-fronted Black-chat Oenanthe albifrons LC resident 1999 present A3
Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver Plocepasser superciliosus LC resident 1999 present A3
Heuglin's Masked Weaver Ploceus heuglini LC resident 1999 present A3
Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara LC resident 1999 present A3
Red-winged Pytilia Pytilia phoenicoptera LC resident 1999 present A3
Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes 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

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


IBA Protection

Year Protected Area Designation % overlap with IBA
1954 Nimule National Park 100
1954 Nimule Buffer Zone National Park 8

Habitats

Habitat1 Habitat detail % of IBA
Shrubland 82
Forest 16
1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use % of IBA
nature conservation and research -


Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Nimule (South Sudan). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/nimule-iba-south-sudan on 22/11/2024.