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Whooping Motmot (Momotus subrufescens)

Whooping Motmot (Momotus subrufescens)

Whooping Motmot (Momotus subrufescens)



Whooping Motmot (Momotus subrufescens) Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota) Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota)

Class: Aves
Family: Momotidae
Common Name: Whooping Motmot
Genus: Momotus
Species Name: subrufescens

About The Whooping Motmot


Red List Category
LC
Least Concern

Red List Criteria

Version
3.1

Year Assessed
2014

Assessor/s
BirdLife International

Reviewer/s
Butchart, S.

Contributor/s

Justification
This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.


Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2014. Momotus subrufescens. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <www.iucnredlist.org>

Trips Where Observed

Colombia - Santa Marta
Ecuador
Mexico to Panama
Panama

Member Lifelists

Ecuador
North America
South America
World

Sites Where Observed

Location
Date
Notes
3/18/2009
Blue-crowned Motmot (Momotus momota)