Endemic birds of western and central Africa

This article is one of a series providing information about endemism among birds in the World's various zoogeographic zones. For an overview of this subject see Endemism in birds.

Endemic Bird Areas

Birdlife International has defined the following Endemic Bird Areas (EBAs) in the region:

São Tomé
Principe
Upper Guinea forests
Cameroon and Gabon lowlands
Cameroon mountains

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Each area has its own set of endemic species, but there are many further species endemic to the region as a whole.

In addition the following are classified as Secondary areas (areas with at least one restricted-range bird species, but not meeting the criteria to qualify as EBAs)

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List of species

The following is a list of species endemic to the region:

Endemism in birds

Palaearctic	Western Palearctic Japan

Afrotropic	Western and central Africa Southern Africa Madagascar region

Indomalaya	S Asia Himalayas Andamans and Nicobars Borneo Philippines Taiwan

Australasia ecozone	Australia New Zealand New Caledonia

Oceania ecozone	Hawaii

Nearctic	Eastern North America Western North America Mexico and northern Central America

Neotropic	Galápagos Islands West Indies

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