Critically Endangered Dwarf Olive ibis nest found

November 2009. Great news from Associação dos Biólogos Santomenses (ABS), the BirdLife Species Guardian for Dwarf Olive Ibis (Bostrychia bocagei) in São Tomé.

Researcher, Hugulay Maia, leading a team of ABS members located an ibis nest with two eggs at a height of 8 m in primary forest. Although it was not possible to photograph the female, it was observed at the nest on the following day. ABS is monitoring the nest and hopes to provide more detailed data on its breeding and nesting habits.

The BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme is providing help and funding to this and more than 50 other threatened species.

Dwarf Olive Ibis
The critically endangered Dwarf Olive Ibis is endemic to Sao Tome & Principe, off the west coast of Central Africa.
It lives in primary lowland forest near water and swamps. There may be as few as 50 of the birds left alive, and it is threatened by loss of habitat. It was believed to be extinct until rediscovered n 1990.

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