HKBWS WY

The IUCN Red List has been revised recently and there is one change relating to us:


Baikal Teal: Vulnerable to Least Concern.


It means it is no longer 'threatened'.


More information is:
http://www.birdlife.org/action/s ... amme/whats_new.html

yyattung

In case of member's interesting to know all the threatened and near-threatened bird species recorded in Hong Kong, I list all these species below:

CR = critically endangered, EN = endangered, VU = vulnerable, NT = Near threatened

CR
Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Christmas Island Frigatebird

EN
Baer's Pochard, Oriental Stork, Japanese Night-heron, Black-faced Spoonbill, Nordmann's Greenshank

VU
Greater Spotted Eagle, Imperial Eagle, Great Knot, Swinhoe's Egret, Yellow-breasted Bunting, Japanese Yellow Bunting, Relict Gull, Saunders's Gull, Styan's Grasshopper Warbler, Eastern Curlew, Dalmatian Pelican, Fairy Pitta, Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher

NT
Cinereous Vulture, Falcated Duck, Collared Crow, Rufous-rumped Grassbird, Asian Dowitcher, Black-tailed Godwit, Eurasian Curlew, Japanese Paradise-flycatcher, Black-headed Ibis.

HKBWS Chuan

some more species

CR:
Siberian Crane, Yellow-crested Cockatoo

VU:
Philippine duck, Japanese Murrelet, Manchurian Reed Warbler

NT:
Ferruginous Duck, Band-bellied Crake, Japanese Waxwing, Japanese Swamp Warbler, Japanese Reed Bunting


The Following is a updated HK birdlist with IUCN status and other conservation information, Please correct me if you find any mistakes:
HKbirdlist+conservation status.xls (227 KB)

HKbirdlist+conservation status.xls (227 KB)
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14/06/2011 17:58

brendank

This is a fascinating list.  I would not have guessed some of these birds such as Yellow-breasted Bunting are vulnerable or threatened.

ajohn

Add one more

VU:
Lesser White-fronted Goose

It always interests me that such a small place as HK has such a large list of threatened species, compared to Europe or N America. I think this reveals how important HK is for birds, but also how threatened many birds are in Asia!

lkatherine

Japanese Quail has also been listed as "Near Threatened" since 2010.

Katherine