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2010 Red List decisions (1 Viewer)

A few of note including Black-winged Starling, White-bellied Cinclodes now Critical and Jankowski's Bunting now Endangered. I was surprised to Zapata Rail now Critical - is anyone aware of any new information on this species? I would have thought DD is more sensible at present?

cheers, a
 
The Zapata Rail discussion is here http://www.birdlifeforums.org/WebX/.2cba6b12/1. A guideline for using DD is that so little is known of a species and its threats that both LC and CR could be plausible categories. In the case of the rail, while it remains a poorly-known species there is certainly enough known of its range and threats to assume that it is threatened, and so the limited evidence available must then be used to place it in the most plausible threat category (in this case CR).
 
bustersymes said:
The Zapata Rail discussion is here http://www.birdlifeforums.org/WebX/.2cba6b12/1. A guideline for using DD is that so little is known of a species and its threats that both LC and CR could be plausible categories. In the case of the rail, while it remains a poorly-known species there is certainly enough known of its range and threats to assume that it is threatened, and so the limited evidence available must then be used to place it in the most plausible threat category (in this case CR).
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Thanks for the link - if the absence of a photograph is any benchmark (e.g. Cebu Flowerpecker), I think Critical is probably warranted. Let's face it - it could have been extinct for years. No species of conservation concern is probably more widely strung (other than SBC!)

cheers, a
 
I am a little confused because it seems that they have missed the Tasman Booby which should be changed from EX to NR (as it is regarded as still existing subspecies of the Masked Booby since 2009). And the saddest change: The Alaotra Grebe is now considered as extinct.
 
Richard Klim said:
Hale 2010. Bird to watch: Jankowski’s Bunting Emberiza jankowskii: the next species to become extinct in east Asia? BirdingASIA 13: 71-72.


Richard
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Possible but unlikely; see the foreword of the same issue (but not sure this is available online) and also various threads on here. I suspect Baer's Pochard will be extinct (in the wild) before Jankowski's Bunting.

cheers, alan
 
Jankowski's Bunting

lewis20126 said:
Possible but unlikely; see the foreword of the same issue (but not sure this is available online) and also various threads on here.
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Yes, there's hope yet!

Just signed up for Jesper Hornskov's next Manchurian 'raid' (4-12 May 2011).

Richard
 
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