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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
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
Black-breasted Barbet Pogonornis rolleti	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Fox Kestrel Falco alopex	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
Foxy Cisticola Cisticola troglodytes	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-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes	LC	resident	1999	present	A3
Sahel Bush-sparrow Gymnoris dentata	LC	resident	1999	present	A3

1. The current IUCN Red List category. The category at the time of the IBA criteria assessment (2001) may differ.

Year	Protected Area	Designation	% overlap with IBA
1939	Southern	National Park	100

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Forest		91
Shrubland		8

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
nature conservation and research	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Southern National Park (South Sudan). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/southern-national-park-iba-south-sudan on 22/11/2024.