JNCC Report No. 412 (Addendum): Raptor Distribution Maps

JNCC Report No. 412 (Addendum)

Survey of the occurrence and relative abundance of raptors in Guinea subject to international trade

Addendum – raptor distribution maps

Guy Rondeau, Mohammed Moussa Condeé, Bernard Ahon, Ousmane Diallo & Daniel Pouakouyou

May 2020

©JNCC, Peterborough 2020

ISSN 0963-8091

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This report should be cited as:

Rondeau, G., Condeé, M.M., Ahon, B., Diallo, O. & Pouakouyou, D. 2020. Survey of the occurrence and relative abundance of raptors in Guinea subject to international trade: Addendum – raptor distribution maps. JNCC Report No.412 Addendum. JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 0963-8091.

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Please Note:

Report 412 was originally published in 2008 and is available here. This Annex of distribution maps was produced at that time but was not published.

Contents

1 Background ...... 1 2 References ...... 1 3 Raptor distribution maps ...... 2 Pandion haliaetus - Osprey ...... 3 Aviceda cuculoides – African cuckoo-hawk ...... 4 Pernis apivorus – European honey buzzard ...... 5 Elanus caeruleus – Black-winged kite ...... 6 Milvus migrans – Black kite ...... 7 Haliaaetus vocifer – African fish eagle ...... 8 Gypohierax angolensis – Palm-nut vulture ...... 9 Necrosyrtes monachus – Hooded vulture ...... 10 Gyps africanus – White-backed vulture ...... 11 Gyps rueppellii - Rüppell's vulture ...... 12 Gyps fulvus – Griffon vulture ...... 13 Trigonoceps occipitalis – White-headed vulture ...... 14 Circaetus beaudouini - Beaudouin's snake eagle ...... 15 Circaetus cinereus – Brown snake eagle ...... 16 Circaetus cinerascens – Western banded snake eagle ...... 17 Terathopius ecaudatus - Bateleur ...... 18 Polyboroides typus – African gymnogene ...... 19 Circus pygargus – Montagu’s harrier ...... 20 Circus aeruginosus – Western marsh harrier ...... 21 Micronisus gabar – Gabar goshawk ...... 22 Melierax metabates – Dark chanting goshawk ...... 23 Accipiter badius - Shikra ...... 24 Accipiter ovampensis - Ovambo sparrowhawk ...... 25 Accipiter melanoleucus – Black goshawk ...... 26 Butastur rufipennis – Grasshopper buzzard ...... 27 Kaupifalco monogrammicus – Lizard buzzard ...... 28 Buteo auguralis – Red-necked buzzard ...... 29 Aquila rapax – Tawny eagle ...... 30 Aquila wahlbergi – Wahlberg’s eagle ...... 31 Hieraaetus spilogaster – African hawk-eagle ...... 32 Hieraaetus pennatus – Booted eagle ...... 33 Lophaetus occipitalis – Long-crested eagle ...... 34 Stephanoaetus coronatus – Crowned eagle ...... 35 Falco tinnunculus – Common kestrel ...... 36 Falco alopex – Fox kestrel ...... 37 Falco ardosiaceus – Grey kestrel ...... 38 Falco subbuteo – Eurasian hobby ...... 39 Falco cuvierii – African hobby ...... 40 Falco biarmicus – Lanner falcon ...... 41

Survey of the occurrence and relative abundance of raptors in Guinea subject to international trade: Addendum – raptor distribution maps

1 Background

In response to an increasing trade in CITES-listed birds of prey from Guinea, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), supported by Defra (Department of the Environment and Rural Affairs), commissioned a survey of the relative abundance of raptors in the country. This survey was undertaken by Fauna & Flora International and Afrique Nature in 2006 and the methods and results of that survey are reported by Rondeau et al. (2008).

Counts of raptors were done in the survey by driving road transects, supplemented by spot counts, transects on foot and nocturnal surveys, as a rapid but rigorous and reproducible survey technique which would provide information on distribution and relative abundance of birds of prey in Guinea. The survey thus provided a baseline on the relative abundance of raptors in Guinea using a method that was repeatable and so would enable any trends in time to be reported.

This addendum to that report provides the maps of distribution of raptors, and their relative abundance (expressed as birds seen per 100 kilometres of road transect), encountered on the survey. These maps were produced at the time but not published then. They are being provided now to add value to the report and to provide additional baseline information.

2 References

Rondeau, G, Condeé, M M, Ahon, B, Diallo, O & Pouakouyou, D. 2008. Survey of the occurrence and relative abundance of raptors in Guinea subject to international trade. JNCC Report No.412, JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 978-1-86107-600-7.

1 Survey of the occurrence and relative abundance of raptors in Guinea subject to international trade: Addendum – raptor distribution maps

3 Raptor distribution maps

2 Survey of the occurrence and relative abundance of raptors in Guinea subject to international trade: Addendum – raptor distribution maps

Pandion haliaetus - Osprey