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Timed Species Count Data collected in the Lower Tana River Forest Fragments 1999 - 2001

Global Biodiversity Information Facility2023

Joseph O. Oyugi, Alfred O. Owino, Paul K. Ndang’ang’a, Bernard Amakobe, Patrick Gichuki, Colin Jackson, Henry K. Ndithia, Judith Ochieng, Esther Mwangi, Maryanne Njambi, Peter Njoroge

Abstract

The Lower Tana River Forest patches in Coastal Kenya are remnants of a vast tropical forest that once extended from the East Coast of Africa to the Congo Basin during the Miocene (some 26million years ago). The forest now occurs patchily on each side of the river. The forest fragments are among the key forests for bird conservation in Africa and qualify as an Important Bird Area (Bennun & Njoroge 1999). However, there has been little systematic ornithological work in the Lower Tana, and information on the avifauna is patchy and scant. The forest fragments are at different succession stages and are unlikely to be of equal conservation importance to birds hence the studies sought to characterize the avifauna of the different forests' types in Lower Tana River and to identify the most important fragments for bird’s conservation. This dataset gives baseline information on the timed species count events of birds at the Lower Tana River Forest Fragments including; Mchelelo, Mnazini South, Mnazini North, Congolani Central, Guru North, Guru South, Makere West and East, Mchelelo East, Sifa East, Wenje East, Baomo South, Maroni East, Maroni West and Kipende West between 1999 to 2001. Guru North,Guru South, Kipende West and Sifa East areas was given the Tana River Forest central point coordinates as they were missing from google maps. A total of 161 species were observed. Among these species, 2 were globally near threatened species, 2 regionally vulnerable species and 6 East Coast biome species.

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