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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
Yellow-necked Spurfowl Pternistis leucoscepus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Black-faced Sandgrouse Pterocles decoratus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis	LC	breeding	1962	2,000 breeding pairs	A4i
African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus	LC	breeding	1962	2,000 individuals	A4i
African Spoonbill Platalea alba	LC	breeding	1962	250 breeding pairs	A4i
African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus	LC	breeding	1962	2,000 breeding pairs	A4i
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax	LC	breeding	1962	1,000 breeding pairs	A4i
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis	LC	breeding	1962	10,000 breeding pairs	A4i
Great White Egret Ardea alba	LC	breeding	1962	200 breeding pairs	A4i
Little Egret Egretta garzetta	LC	breeding	1962	1,500 breeding pairs	A4i
Long-tailed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus	LC	breeding	1962	10,000 breeding pairs	A4i
African Darter Anhinga rufa	LC	breeding	1962	8,000 breeding pairs	A4i
Eastern Chanting-goshawk Melierax poliopterus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Usambiro Barbet Trachyphonus usambiro	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Fischer's Lovebird Agapornis fischeri	NT	resident	2000	present	A2, A3
Karamoja Apalis Apalis karamojae	VU	resident	2000	present	A1, A2, A3
Grey Wren-warbler Calamonastes simplex	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Banded Warbler Curruca boehmi	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Ashy Starling Lamprotornis unicolor	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird Anthreptes orientalis	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver Dinemellia dinemelli	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda	LC	resident	2000	present	A2, A3
Blue-capped Cordon-bleu Uraeginthus cyanocephalus	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Steel-blue Whydah Vidua hypocherina	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
Straw-tailed Whydah Vidua fischeri	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
White-bellied Canary Crithagra dorsostriata	LC	resident	2000	present	A3
A4iii Species group - waterbirds	n/a	breeding	1962	100,000-499,999 individuals	A4iii

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

Habitat1	Habitat detail	% of IBA
Artificial/Terrestrial		54
Grassland		24
Wetlands (inland)		17
Forest		1
Shrubland		1

1. IUCN Habitat classification.

Land use	% of IBA
agriculture	-

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Important Bird Area factsheet: Wembere steppe (Tanzania). Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/wembere-steppe-iba-tanzania on 23/11/2024.