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The site was identified as important in 2004 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
Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda	LC	breeding	1987	700-2,000 breeding pairs	A4ii
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster	LC	breeding	1987	1,000-2,000 breeding pairs	A4ii
Brown Noddy Anous stolidus	LC	breeding	1987	4,000-12,000 breeding pairs	A4i
Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus	LC	breeding	1987	1,000-2,000 breeding pairs	A4i
A4iii Species group - seabirds	n/a	breeding	1987	7,800-20,000 breeding pairs	A4iii

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2004) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1937	Gunung Api Banda	Taman Wisata Alam	100
1992	Gunung Api Kisar	Cagar Alam	82

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest		59
Shrubland		-

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
urban/industrial/transport	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Pulau Gunung Api (Indonesia). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/pulau-gunung-api-iba-indonesia on 23/11/2024.