The site was identified as internationally important for bird conservation in 2001 because it was regularly supporting significant populations of the species listed below, meeting ('triggering') IBA criteria.
| Species |
Red List |
Season (year/s of estimate) |
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 pairs |
A4i |
| African Openbill Anastomus lamelligerus |
LC |
breeding (1962) |
2,000 birds |
A4i |
| African Spoonbill Platalea alba |
LC |
breeding (1962) |
250 pairs |
A4i |
| African Sacred Ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus |
LC |
breeding (1962) |
2,000 pairs |
A4i |
| Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax |
LC |
breeding (1962) |
1,000 pairs |
A4i |
| Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis |
LC |
breeding (1962) |
10,000 pairs |
A4i |
| Great White Egret Ardea alba |
LC |
breeding (1962) |
200 pairs |
A4i |
| Little Egret Egretta garzetta |
LC |
breeding (1962) |
1,500 pairs |
A4i |
| Long-tailed Cormorant Microcarbo africanus |
LC |
breeding (1962) |
10,000 pairs |
A4i |
| African Darter Anhinga rufa |
LC |
breeding (1962) |
8,000 pairs |
A4i |
| Eastern Chanting-goshawk Melierax poliopterus |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Von der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeni |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Black-throated Barbet Tricholaema melanocephala |
LC |
resident (2000) |
present |
A3 |
| Usambiro Barbet Trachyphonus usambiro |
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 birds |
A4iii |
