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This habitat holds 20 bird taxa of conservation significance but some are now rare or absent at Mt Moco. Given the small extent of forest, its high conservation value and the severe human impacts on it, finding new areas of Afromontane forest is a high conservation priority. With this objective, we visited the Namba mountains in July 2010, where c.100 ha was thought to remain in the 1970s, to establish the extent and condition of forest there and to conduct bird surveys. We found closed-canopy Afromontane forest with an abundance of<jats:italic>Podocarpus latifolius<\/jats:italic>and little human disturbance. We recorded 89 bird species, 56 in or adjacent to forest and including all 20 priority taxa and a significant population of the Endangered Swierstra\u2019s Francolin<jats:italic>Pternistis swierstrai<\/jats:italic>. On-screen digitising of forest patches using Google Earth indicates that the larger patches are an order of magnitude larger than at Mt Moco and that there is currently &gt; 590 ha of forest in the Namba mountains, more than trebling the previous national estimate. The site qualifies as a new Important Bird Area and is a high priority for inclusion in Angola\u2019s protected area network.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s095927091200024x","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,6,13]],"date-time":"2012-06-13T03:00:13Z","timestamp":1339556413000},"page":"159-167","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["The Namba mountains: new hope for Afromontane forest birds in Angola"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"MICHAEL S. 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