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The site was identified as important in 2007 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
Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Afep Pigeon Columba unicincta	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Blue-headed Wood-dove Turtur brehmeri	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Sabine's Spinetail Rhaphidura sabini	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Bates's Swift Apus batesi	LC	-	-	present	A3
Sjostedt's Owlet Glaucidium sjostedti	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Red-billed Dwarf Hornbill Lophoceros camurus	LC	-	-	present	A3
Congo Pied Hornbill Lophoceros fasciatus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Black-casqued Hornbill Ceratogymna atrata	LC	-	-	present	A3
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus	LC	-	-	present	A3
White-thighed Hornbill Bycanistes albotibialis	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Eastern Piping Hornbill Bycanistes sharpii	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Black Bee-eater Merops gularis	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis	LC	resident	-	present	A3
African Dwarf-kingfisher Ispidina lecontei	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher Halcyon badia	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Red-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus atroflavus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Brown-eared Woodpecker Pardipicus caroli	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Grey Parrot Psittacus erithacus	EN	resident	-	present	A3
Rufous-sided Broadbill Smithornis rufolateralis	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Western Black-headed Oriole Oriolus brachyrynchus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Blue Cuckooshrike Cyanograucalus azureus	LC	-	-	present	A3
White-spotted Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia tonsa	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Chestnut Wattle-eye Dyaphorophyia castanea	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Red-eyed Puffback Dryoscopus senegalensis	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Lowland Sooty Boubou Laniarius leucorhynchus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Red-bellied Paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Western Nicator Nicator chloris	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Yellow-throated Nicator Nicator vireo	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Olive-green Camaroptera Camaroptera chloronota	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Chattering Cisticola Cisticola anonymus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
White-bibbed Swallow Hirundo nigrita	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Golden Greenbul Calyptocichla serinus	LC	-	-	present	A3
Red-tailed Bristlebill Bleda syndactylus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Bleda notatus	NR	-	-	present	A3
Spotted Greenbul Ixonotus guttatus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Swamp Palm Bulbul Thescelocichla leucopleura	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Honeyguide Greenbul Baeopogon indicator	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Grey Greenbul Eurillas gracilis	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Plain Greenbul Eurillas curvirostris	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Red-tailed Greenbul Criniger calurus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Xavier's Greenbul Phyllastrephus xavieri	LC	-	-	present	A3
White-throated Greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Icterine Greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Leaf-love Pyrrhurus scandens	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa	LC	resident	-	present	A3
White-browed Forest-flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens	LC	resident	-	present	A3
African Forest-flycatcher Fraseria ocreata	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Fraser's Sunbird Deleornis fraseri	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Reichenbach's Sunbird Anabathmis reichenbachii	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Blue-throated Brown Sunbird Cyanomitra cyanolaema	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Vieillot's Black Weaver Ploceus nigerrimus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Cassin's Malimbe Malimbus cassini	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Blue-billed Malimbe Malimbus nitens	LC	-	-	present	A3
Red-headed Malimbe Malimbus rubricollis	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Crested Malimbe Malimbus malimbicus	LC	resident	-	present	A3
Western Bluebill Spermophaga haematina	LC	-	-	present	A3
White-breasted Nigrita Nigrita fusconotus	LC	-	-	present	A3
Chestnut-breasted Nigrita Nigrita bicolor	LC	resident	-	present	A3

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2007) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
2007	Grands affluents	Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance	-
2012	Site Ramsar Ntokou-Pikounda	Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance	100
2013	Ntokou-Pikounda	Parc National	100

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest		major (>10)
Savanna		minor (<10)

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
forestry	major (>10)
agriculture	minor (<10)

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Ntokou Pikounda Reserve (Congo). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/ntokou-pikounda-reserve-iba-congo on 23/11/2024.