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Ntokou Pikounda Reserve


IBA Justification

The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation 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 List Season (year/s of estimate) 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

Habitats

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

Land use

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


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 23/12/2024.