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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
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

Year	Protected Area	Designation (management category)	% coverage of IBA
1954	Nimule	National Park (II)	100
1954	Nimule Buffer Zone	National Park (II)	8

Habitat	% of IBA	Habitat detail
Shrubland	82
Forest	16

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	-

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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 23/12/2024.