Data Zone
Country/territory: Timor-Leste
IBA criteria met: A1, A2 (2007)
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Area: 5,348 hectares (53.48 km2)
Site description (2007 baseline)
This IBA is dominated by tropical deciduous forest on limestone hills, with patches of evergreen forest along perennial springs at the base of a rocky hill. Most coastal forest has been converted to rice and agriculture, but a small freshwater wetland and well-vegetated saline lagoons are present along the coast. This site is known in Indonesian as ‘Hutan Tilomar’ (‘Tilomar Forest’) (RTK 34) (Ora 2000).
Key biodiversity
Lambert et al. (2006) conducted a four-day bird forest survey around Foho Lulik village and located the Endangered Wetar Ground-dove, only the second record of this poorly-known species on Timor and the first in Timor-Leste. Twenty-five restricted-range species have been recorded in this IBA, plus the Critically Endangered Yellow-crested Cockatoo (Ora 2000, Lambert et al. 2006).
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Tilomar (Timor-Leste). Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/tilomar-iba-timor-leste on 22/12/2024.