http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=checklist_birds_anwase Mark Hopkins Eden Creation Care Initiative Board Member

Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos Jos Plateau 930101 NG

marktehopkins@gmail.com https://nigeria.arocha.org/ Babajide Agboola Eden Creation Care Initiative Volunteer

Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos Jos Plateau 930101 NG

https://nigeria.arocha.org/ Waldi Gurumse Eden Creation Care Initiative Conservation Officer

Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos Jos Plateau 930101

waldi.gurumse@arocha.org https://nigeria.arocha.org/ Joy Ishong A. P Leventis Ornithological Research Institute Bird Ringer

P.O.Box 13404, Laminga, Jos-East LGA, Plateau State, 930001, Nigeria. Jos Plateau 930001 NG

jamihot460@gmail.com https://www.aplori.org/ Emmanuel Okposio Eden Creation Care Initiative Data Analyst

Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173 Jos Plateau 930101 NG

okposioemmanuel8@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-okposio-006b18153 Mark Hopkins Eden Creation Care Initiative Board Member

Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos Jos Plateau 930101 NG

marktehopkins@gmail.com https://nigeria.arocha.org/ Emmanuel Okposio Eden Creation Care Initiative Data Analyst

Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos Jos Plateau 930101 NG

okposioemmanuel8@gmail.com https://nigeria.arocha.org/ linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-okposio-006b18153 Judith Ochieng A Rocha Kenya Project Coordinator BID-GBIF

P.O Box 383 Watamu 80202 KE

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Imonda@museums.or.ke https://www.museums.or.ke/ programmer 2023-03-16 eng The birding trips were to forest patches around Anwase village of Kwande Local Government Area in Benue State. No previous bird watching had been carried out in these forests. Our study of the geography of the place tells us that the portion of the Guinea forest which lies to the north of the largely montane upland extending from the Sankwala Mountains in Cross River State via the Obudu Plateau and the Bamenda Highlands in Cameroon to the Mambila Plateau in Taraba State is isolated from the main body of that forest to the south. The birding trips were undertaken between the 29th of December 2019 and 17th February 2023. On these trips, forest birds were observed including Chestnut-winged Starling Onichognathus fulgidus which is well known from the main forest belt in Nigeria but seen for the first time in these forests. A black paradise flycatcher which was similar to the enigmatic bird described by Yakhat Barshep in the African Bird Club Bulletin of 2020 was also seen. On this trip it was discovered that the forest still remaining in the area is fragmentary and under severe threat. It has exceptional ornithological importance with high probability of discovering new species and subspecies. This checklist contains 153 bird species recorded in these forest patches. Checklist Forest patches Bird Anwase GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Derivedfromoccurrence GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. The data were collected in forest patches within Anwase. 9.08 9.514 6.921 6.555 2019-12-29 2023-02-17 This data set contain bird species that illustrates the importance of the site and bird species of conservation concern. When collated with other data, this information will be provided to local communities and also the Government at both State and Federal levels to push for the conservation of these sites. unkown Mark Hopkins Eden Creation Care Initiative Board Member

Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos Jos Plateau 930101 NG

marktehopkins@gmail.com https://nigeria.arocha.org/ Emmanuel Okposio Eden Creation Care Initiative Data Analyst

Rennajj Fish Farm, Latya Road P.O. Box 7173, Anglo-Jos Anglo-Jos Jos Plateau 930101 NG

okposioemmanuel8@gmail.com https://nigeria.arocha.org/ linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-okposio-006b18153 The following tools were used to review the data set: Google Earth: Used to generate the location of the study area. Open Refine: Used to check for double entries. Encyclopedia of Life and IOC World Bird List: Used to check and confirm the current nomenclature of the birds Borrow and Demey: Birds of western Africa: Used initially to identify the species on the field Global Name resolver: Used to resolve conflicting scientific names. GBIF species name matching: Used to confirm and match up names of the birds with the existing data set in GBIF. The data were collected in forest patches within Anwase. The occurrence data was collected using a strategic random method where routes were walked slowly, and birds seen and heard recorded, with a significant amount of time spent on identifying rare and unusual bird sightings. The quality of this data set was assessed and reviewed by the lead author, Mark Hopkins, after using the following tools: Google Earth, IOC World bird list, and Borrow and Demey: Field Guide to birds of West Africa to make sure the data entered are accurate. Mark Hopkins principalInvestigator Emmanuel Okposio originator Waldi Gurumse originator Joy Ishong originator Babajide Agboola originator Judith Ochieng publisher Lawrence Monda programmer https://www.gbif.org/project/BID-AF2020-140-REG/raising-the-profile-of-data-for-the-conservation-of-four-forested-african-landscapes#about Data collection was funded by the African Bird Club. Publication of this dataset was made possible through the BID programme led by GBIF. The project was funded by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation https://www.gbif.org/project/BID-AF2020-140-REG/raising-the-profile-of-data-for-the-conservation-of-four-forested-african-landscapes Anwase is characterised by low mountains rising from generally flat lowlands. Forest occurs in patches near the summits of the mountains and in galleries along certain streams. Most land is intensively farmed by a large rural population whose activities pose severe threats to the survival of forest. Coverage was of birds only over the period of the survey. The survey was carried out to discover potential sites of biological significance and conservation importance. Eden Creation Care Initiative surveyed these sites with the aim of identifying potential forest sites in which to set up field projects and expand Eden’s reach into the Southern part of Nigeria. A series of preliminary surveys to this site were carried out from the 29th of December 2019 to the 17th of February, 2023. Findings were compiled as a list of bird observations with a short report written about the biological and conservation significance of the site. 2023-03-16T12:47:05.928+03:00 dataset Hopkins M, Agboola B, Gurumse W, Ishong J, Okposio E (2023): A checklist of birds of Anwase forest. v1.0. A Rocha Kenya. Dataset/Checklist. http://ipt.museums.or.ke/ipt/resource?r=checklist_birds_anwase&v=1.0 Borrow, N. and Demey, R. (2014). Birds of western Africa: Second Edition. Princeton Field Guides, 96. Encyclopedia of Life IOC World Bird List v. 11.1 Global Name Resolver GBIF species name matching