GQ005
Nsork Highlands National Park


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
Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta LC resident 2000 present A3
Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini LC resident 2000 present A3
Gabon Coucal Centropus anselli LC resident 2000 present A3
Eastern Long-tailed Hornbill Horizocerus cassini LC resident 2000 present A3
Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus LC resident 2000 present A3
Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus LC resident 2000 present A3
Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata LC resident 2000 present A3
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus LC resident 2000 present A3
White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis LC resident 2000 present A3
Eastern Piping Hornbill Bycanistes sharpii LC resident 2000 present A3
Black Bee-eater Merops gularis LC resident 2000 present A3
Blue-headed Bee-eater Merops muelleri 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-billed Barbet Trachylaemus purpuratus LC resident 2000 present A3
Speckled Tinkerbird Pogoniulus scolopaceus LC resident 2000 present A3
Yellow-throated Tinkerbird Pogoniulus subsulphureus LC resident 2000 present A3
Willcocks's Honeyguide Indicator willcocksi LC resident 2000 present A3
Spotted Honeyguide Indicator maculatus LC resident 2000 present A3
Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus LC resident 2000 present A3
Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli LC resident 2000 present A3
Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis LC resident 2000 present A3
Black-winged Oriole Oriolus nigripennis LC resident 2000 present A3
Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus LC resident 2000 present A3
Shining Drongo Dicrurus atripennis LC resident 2000 present A3
Western Crested-flycatcher Trochocercus nitens 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
Violet-backed Hyliota Hyliota violacea LC resident 2000 present A3
Dusky Crested-flycatcher Elminia nigromitrata LC resident 2000 present A3
Western Nicator Nicator chloris LC resident 2000 present A3
Green Crombec Sylvietta virens LC resident 2000 present A3
Grey Longbill Macrosphenus concolor LC resident 2000 present A3
Buff-throated Apalis Apalis rufogularis LC resident 2000 present A3
Yellow-browed Camaroptera Camaroptera superciliaris LC resident 2000 present A3
Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota LC resident 2000 present A3
Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus LC resident 2000 present A3
Yellow-lored Bristlebill Bleda notatus LC resident 2000 present A3
Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus LC resident 2000 present A3
Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura LC resident 2000 present A3
Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator LC resident 2000 present A3
Simple Greenbul Chlorocichla simplex LC resident 2000 present A3
Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris LC resident 2000 present A3
Eastern Bearded Greenbul Criniger chloronotus LC resident 2000 present A3
Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus LC resident 2000 present A3
White-bearded Greenbul Criniger ndussumensis LC resident 2000 present A3
Xavier's Greenbul Phyllastrephus xavieri LC resident 2000 present A3
Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus LC resident 2000 present A3
Chestnut-capped Flycatcher Erythrocercus mccallii LC resident 2000 present A3
Green Hylia Hylia prasina LC resident 2000 present A3
Black-capped Illadopsis Illadopsis cleaveri 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
Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini LC resident 2000 present A3
White-browed Forest-flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens LC resident 2000 present A3
African Forest-flycatcher Fraseria ocreata LC resident 2000 present A3
Grey-throated Tit-flycatcher Fraseria griseigularis LC resident 2000 present A3
Olivaceous Flycatcher Fraseria olivascens LC resident 2000 present A3
Orange-breasted Forest-robin Stiphrornis erythrothorax LC resident 2000 present A3
Lowland Akalat Sheppardia cyornithopsis LC resident 2000 present A3
Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri LC resident 2000 present A3
Cassin's Malimbe Malimbus cassini LC resident 2000 present A3
Rachel's Malimbe Malimbus racheliae LC resident 2000 present A2, A3
Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus LC resident 2000 present A3
Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina LC resident 2000 present A3
White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus LC resident 2000 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
2000 Altos de Nsork National Park 100

Habitats

Habitat1 Habitat detail % of IBA
Forest 100
1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use

Land use % of IBA
agriculture -
forestry -
nature conservation and research -


Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Nsork Highlands National Park (Equatorial Guinea). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/nsork-highlands-national-park-iba-equatorial-guinea on 22/11/2024.