List of vulnerable birds

As of December 2019, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 800 vulnerable avian species.[1] 7.3% of all evaluated avian species are listed as vulnerable. No subpopulations of birds have been evaluated by the IUCN.

•   Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species
•   Critically endangered (CR): 225 species
•   Endangered (EN): 461 species
•   Vulnerable (VU): 800 species
•   Near threatened (NT): 1,017 species
•   Least concern (LC): 8,427 species
•   Data deficient (DD): 53 species

Avian species (IUCN, 2019-3)

• 10,983 extant species have been evaluated
• 10,930 of those are fully assessed[lower-alpha 1]
• 9,444 are not threatened at present[lower-alpha 2]
• 1,486 to 1,539 are threatened[lower-alpha 3]
• 164 to 183 are extinct or extinct in the wild:
  • 159 extinct (EX) species[lower-alpha 4]
  • 5 extinct in the wild (EW)
  • 19 possibly extinct [CR(PE)]

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1. excludes data deficient evaluations.
2. NT and LC.
3. Threatened comprises CR, EN and VU. Upper estimate additionally includes DD.
4. Chart omits extinct (EX) species

Vulnerable (VU) species are considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

For a species to be assessed as vulnerable to extinction the best available evidence must meet quantitative criteria set by the IUCN designed to reflect "a high risk of extinction in the wild". Endangered and critically endangered species also meet the quantitative criteria of vulnerable species, and are listed separately. See: List of endangered birds, List of critically endangered birds. Vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered species are collectively referred to as threatened species by the IUCN.

Additionally 53 avian species (0.48% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient, meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status. As these species typically have small distributions and/or populations, they are intrinsically likely to be threatened, according to the IUCN.[2] While the category of data deficient indicates that no assessment of extinction risk has been made for the taxa, the IUCN notes that it may be appropriate to give them "the same degree of attention as threatened taxa, at least until their status can be assessed."[3]

This is a complete list of vulnerable avian species evaluated by the IUCN. Where possible common names for taxa are given while links point to the scientific name used by the IUCN.

Mesites

• Brown mesite
• White-breasted mesite
• Subdesert mesite

Penguins

• Southern rockhopper penguin
• Macaroni penguin
• Fiordland penguin
• Snares penguin
• Humboldt penguin

Procellariiformes

Procellariiformes includes petrels and albatrosses. There are 30 species in the order Procellariiformes assessed as vulnerable.

Albatrosses

• Southern royal albatross
• Wandering albatross
• Short-tailed albatross
• Chatham albatross
• Campbell albatross
• Salvin's albatross

Procellariids

• Buller's shearwater
• Pink-footed shearwater
• White-chinned petrel
• Spectacled petrel
• Black petrel
• Trindade petrel
• Chatham petrel
• Collared petrel
• White-necked petrel
• Cook's petrel
• De Filippi's petrel
• Desertas petrel
• Juan Fernández petrel
• Gould's petrel
• Stejneger's petrel
• Pycroft's petrel
• Hawaiian petrel
• Providence petrel
• Heinroth's shearwater
• Yelkouan shearwater

Storm petrels

• Matsudaira's storm petrel
• Monteiro's storm petrel

Gruiformes

There are 26 species in the order Gruiformes assessed as vulnerable.

Trumpeters

• Dark-winged trumpeter

Cranes

• Blue crane
• Sarus crane
• White-naped crane
• Black crowned crane
• Wattled crane
• Hooded crane
• Black-necked crane

Rallids

• Talaud bush-hen
• Brown wood rail
• Snoring rail
• Inaccessible Island rail
• Swinhoe's rail
• Hawaiian coot
• Gough moorhen
• Weka
• Calayan rail
• Blue-faced rail
• Invisible rail
• Galapagos crake
• Rufous-faced crake
• Auckland rail
• Dot-winged crake
• Austral rail
• Madagascan rail
• Henderson crake

Bustards

• Southern black korhaan
• MacQueen's bustard
• Houbara bustard
• Great bustard

Parrots

There are 53 parrot species assessed as vulnerable.

Cockatoos

• Salmon-crested cockatoo
• Blue-eyed cockatoo

Psittacids

• Black-cheeked lovebird
• Black-billed amazon
• Red-necked amazon
• Yellow-naped amazon
• Yellow-shouldered amazon
• Red-tailed amazon
• Yellow-billed amazon
• Saint Vincent amazon
• Red-spectacled amazon
• Tucumán amazon
• Hispaniolan amazon
• Saint Lucia amazon
• Hyacinth macaw
• Military macaw
• Rufous-fronted parakeet
• Palm lorikeet
• Seychelles black parrot
• Antipodes parakeet
• Black-winged lory
• Horned parakeet
• Yellow-faced parrotlet
• Golden parakeet
• Rusty-faced parrot
• Red-faced parrot
• Golden-plumed parakeet
• Flores hanging-parrot
• Chattering lory
• Yellow-tailed parrot
• Blue-headed macaw
• Mindoro racket-tail
• Blue-headed racket-tail
• Crimson shining parrot
• Hispaniolan parakeet
• Cuban parakeet
• Echo parakeet
• African grey parrot
• Timneh parrot
• Pesquet's parrot
• Vulturine parrot
• White-breasted parakeet
• Flame-winged parakeet
• Ochre-marked parakeet
• Pearly parakeet
• Crimson-bellied parakeet
• Madeira parakeet (Pyrrhura snethlageae)
• Black-lored parrot
• Red-fronted parrotlet
• Scarlet-shouldered parrotlet
• Spot-winged parrotlet
• Golden-tailed parrotlet
• Biak lorikeet
• Blue lorikeet
• Stephen's lorikeet

Suliformes

• Ascension frigatebird
• Cape gannet
• Campbell shag
• New Zealand king shag
• Otago shag
• Auckland shag
• Flightless cormorant
• Socotra cormorant
• Bounty shag

Pigeons and doves

• White-fronted ground dove
• Marquesan ground dove
• Tongan ground dove
• Nilgiri wood pigeon
• Yellow-eyed pigeon
• Yellow-legged pigeon
• Pale-capped pigeon
• Sri Lanka wood pigeon
• Vanuatu imperial pigeon
• Chestnut-bellied imperial pigeon
• Spotted imperial pigeon
• Grey imperial pigeon
• Mindanao bleeding-heart
• Partridge pigeon
• Grey-fronted quail-dove
• Western crowned pigeon
• Southern crowned pigeon
• Chatham pigeon
• New Britain bronzewing
• Pink pigeon
• Azuero dove
• Ochre-bellied dove
• White-naped pheasant-pigeon
• Ring-tailed pigeon
• Maranon pigeon
• Ruddy pigeon
• Mindanao brown dove
• Makatea fruit dove
• Red-naped fruit dove
• Carunculated fruit dove
• Henderson fruit dove
• Lilac-crowned fruit dove
• Flame-breasted fruit dove
• Lompobattang fruit-dove
• Banggai fruit dove
• Philippine collared dove
• European turtle dove
• Large green pigeon
• Flores green pigeon
• Pemba green pigeon
• São Tomé green pigeon

Pelecaniformes

("Pelican-like")

• Agami heron
• Shoebill
• Chinese egret
• Slaty egret
• Southern bald ibis
• Dalmatian pelican

Galliformes

There are 46 species in the order Galliformes assessed as vulnerable.

Cracids

• Black curassow
• Bare-faced curassow
• Great curassow
• Rufous-headed chachalaca
• Bearded guan
• White-browed guan
• Chestnut-bellied guan
• White-crested guan
• Highland guan

Megapodes

• Moluccan megapode
• Malleefowl
• Sula megapode
• Biak scrubfowl
• Vanuatu megapode
• Nicobar megapode
• Tongan scrubfowl
• Tanimbar scrubfowl

Phasianids

• Congo peafowl
• Hainan partridge
• Chestnut-necklaced partridge
• Chestnut-breasted partridge
• Grey-breasted partridge
• Cheer pheasant
• Brown eared pheasant
• Swamp francolin
• Chinese monal
• Sclater's monal
• Bulwer's pheasant
• Crestless fireback
• Bornean crestless fireback
• Black partridge
• Mountain peacock-pheasant
• Malayan peacock-pheasant
• Palawan peacock-pheasant
• Harwood's francolin
• Hose's partridge
• Reeves's pheasant
• Blyth's tragopan
• Cabot's tragopan
• Western tragopan
• Greater prairie chicken
• Lesser prairie chicken

New World quails

• Ocellated quail
• Bearded wood partridge
• Black-fronted wood quail
• Tacarcuna wood quail
• Dark-backed wood quail

Guineafowl species

• White-breasted guineafowl

Struthioniformes

• Southern brown kiwi
• Great spotted kiwi
• Southern cassowary
• Northern cassowary
• Choco tinamou
• Hooded tinamou
• Taczanowski's tinamou
• Lesser nothura
• Somali ostrich
• Dwarf tinamou
• Black tinamou
• Grey tinamou

Bucerotiformes

Includes hornbills, hoopoe and wood hoopoes.

• Rufous-necked hornbill
• Black hornbill
• Palawan hornbill
• Great hornbill
• Rufous hornbill
• Southern rufous hornbill
• Rhinoceros hornbill
• Southern ground hornbill
• Brown-cheeked hornbill
• Yellow-casqued hornbill
• Sulawesi hornbill
• Writhed hornbill
• Wreathed hornbill

• Knobbed hornbill
• Sumba hornbill
• Plain-pouched hornbill

Accipitriformes

Accipitriformes includes most of the diurnal birds of prey. There are 26 species in the order Accipitriformes assessed as vulnerable.

Secretarybirds

• Secretarybird

Accipitrids

• New Britain sparrowhawk
• Nicobar sparrowhawk
• Imitator goshawk
• Slaty-mantled goshawk
• New Britain goshawk
• Spanish imperial eagle
• Eastern imperial eagle
• Tawny eagle
• Galapagos hawk
• Socotra buzzard
• Rufous-tailed hawk
• White-necked hawk
• Beaudouin's snake eagle
• Greater spotted eagle
• Indian spotted eagle
• Plumbeous hawk
• Steller's sea eagle
• Sanford's sea eagle
• Papuan eagle
• Black honey buzzard
• Wallace's hawk-eagle
• Martial eagle
• Andaman serpent eagle
• Mountain serpent eagle

Anseriformes

Anatids

• Andaman teal
• Auckland teal
• Eaton's pintail
• Philippine duck
• Swan goose
• Lesser white-fronted goose
• Common pochard
• Red-breasted goose
• Nene
• Long-tailed duck
• Blue-winged goose
• West Indian whistling duck
• Marbled duck
• Velvet scoter
• Maccoa duck
• Steller's eider
• Salvadori's teal
• Chubut steamer duck

Owls

There are 28 owl species assessed as vulnerable.

Barn-owls

• Golden masked owl
• Minahassa masked owl
• Taliabu masked owl
• Red owl

Strigidae

• Philippine eagle-owl
• Albertine owlet
• Cloud-forest pygmy owl
• Bearded screech owl
• Fearful owl
• Guadalcanal boobook
• Cinnabar boobook
• Malaita boobook
• Mindoro hawk-owl
• Christmas boobook
• New Britain boobook
• Sulu hawk-owl
• Makira boobook
• Romblon hawk-owl
• Javan scops owl
• Biak scops owl
• Giant scops owl
• São Tomé scops owl
• Banggai scops-owl
• Negros scops owl
• Pemba scops owl
• White-fronted scops owl
• Rufous fishing owl

• Snowy owl

Charadriiformes

• Wrybill
• Saint Helena plover
• Madagascan plover
• Chatham snipe
• Atlantic puffin
• Madagascan snipe
• Wood snipe
• Madagascan pratincole
• Lava gull
• Relict gull
• Bristle-thighed curlew
• Aleutian tern
• Red-legged kittiwake
• Black-legged kittiwake
• Indian skimmer
• Saunders's gull
• Amami woodcock
• Fairy tern
• Craveri's murrelet
• Scripps's murrelet
• Japanese murrelet
• Hooded dotterel
• Sumba buttonquail

Falconiformes

• Seychelles kestrel
• Sooty falcon
• Taita falcon
• Grey falcon
• Plumbeous forest falcon

Coraciiformes

Includes kingfishers and bee-eaters.

• Hombron's kingfisher
• Plain-backed kingfisher
• Short-legged ground roller
• Philippine dwarf kingfisher
• South Philippine dwarf-kingfisher
• Bismarck kingfisher
• Keel-billed motmot
• Scaly ground roller
• Kofiau paradise kingfisher
• Sombre kingfisher
• Pohnpei kingfisher
• Mewing kingfisher
• Winchell's kingfisher
• Long-tailed ground roller

Passerines

There are 337 passerine species assessed as vulnerable.

Monarch flycatchers

• Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio
• Kauaʻi ʻelepaio
• Celestial monarch
• Vanikoro monarch
• Tinian monarch
• Rarotonga monarch
• Kofiau monarch

Finches

• Saffron siskin
• Yellow-faced siskin
• Oʻahu ʻamakihi
• Kauaʻi ʻamakihi
• ʻAnianiau
• Ankober serin
• Syrian serin
• Salvadori's seedeater
• Laysan finch
• Woodpecker Finch
• ʻIʻiwi

Pittas

• Black-faced pitta
• Blue-headed pitta
• Fairy pitta
• Schneider's pitta
• Azure-breasted pitta
• Graceful pitta

Formicariids

• Moustached antpitta
• Santa Marta antpitta
• Great antpitta
• Giant antpitta
• Brown-banded antpitta
• Rusty-tinged antpitta
• Bicolored antpitta
• Hooded antpitta
• Sucre antpitta
• Masked antpitta

White-eyes

• Fernando Po speirops
• Annobón white-eye
• Mount Cameroon speirops
• Seychelles white-eye
• Karthala white-eye
• Samoan white-eye
• Ranongga white-eye
• South Pare white-eye

Cotingas

• Black-headed berryeater
• Long-wattled umbrellabird
• Turquoise cotinga
• Chestnut-bellied cotinga
• Bay-vented cotinga
• Scimitar-winged piha
• Bare-throated bellbird
• Three-wattled bellbird
• Grey-winged cotinga
• White-cheeked cotinga

Thrushes

• Bicknell's thrush
• Javan cochoa
• Sumatran cochoa
• Ashy thrush
• ‘Ōma’o
• Izu thrush
• Grey-sided thrush
• Somali thrush
• La Selle thrush
• Guadalcanal thrush

Corvids

• Florida scrub jay
• Island scrub jay
• White-necked crow
• White-throated jay
• Lidth's jay
• Pinyon jay
• Sichuan jay
• Sri Lanka blue magpie

Antbirds

• White-bearded antshrike
• Bananal antbird
• Rondônia bushbird
• White-streaked antvireo
• Bicolored antvireo
• Plumbeous antvireo
• Yellow-breasted antwren
• Pectoral antwren
• Bahia antwren
• Grey-headed antbird
• Ash-breasted antbird
• Black-tailed antbird
• Salvadori's antwren
• Guianan streaked antwren
• Band-tailed antwren
• Allpahuayo antbird
• Bare-eyed antbird
• Lined antshrike
• Speckled antshrike

Icterids

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• Red-bellied grackle
• Martinique oriole
• Pampas meadowlark
• Bauda oropendola

New World warblers

• Santa Marta warbler
• Pirre warbler
• Pink-headed warbler
• Altamira yellowthroat
• White-winged warbler

Ovenbirds

• Pink-legged graveteiro
• Puna thistletail
• Pernambuco foliage-gleaner
• Ash-browed spinetail
• Marcapata spinetail
• Campo miner
• Henna-hooded foliage-gleaner
• Chestnut-backed thornbird
• White-throated barbtail
• Great spinetail
• Apurímac spinetail
• Rusty-headed spinetail
• Bahia spinetail
• Rufous-necked foliage-gleaner
• Russet-mantled softtail
• Orinoco softtail
• Striated softtail

Sylviids

• Aquatic warbler
• Nauru reed warbler
• Rimatara reed warbler
• Henderson reed warbler
• Manchurian reed warbler
• São Tomé shorttail
• Winifred's warbler
• Appert's tetraka
• Dusky tetraka
• Knysna warbler
• Bristled grassbird
• Papyrus yellow warbler
• Styan's grasshopper warbler
• New Britain thicketbird
• Fly River grassbird
• Kolombangara leaf warbler
• Hainan leaf warbler
• Ijima's leaf warbler
• Black-headed parrotbill
• Broad-tailed grassbird
• Yemen warbler

Emberizids

• Woodpecker finch
• Large tree finch
• Black-masked finch
• Yellow bunting
• Grey-winged Inca finch
• Inaccessible Island finch
• Nightingale Island finch
• Tanager finch
• Great-billed seed finch
• Cocos finch
• Cinereous warbling finch
• Yellow-green finch
• Chestnut seedeater
• Temminck's seedeater
• Buffy-fronted seedeater
• Black-and-tawny seedeater

Old World babblers

• Golden-fronted fulvetta
• Jerdon's babbler
• Sumatran laughingthrush
• White-speckled laughingthrush
• Ashy-headed laughingthrush
• Chestnut-eared laughingthrush
• Golden-winged laughingthrush
• Snowy-cheeked laughingthrush
• Emei Shan liocichla
• Black-breasted parrotbill
• Przevalski's parrotbill
• Grey-hooded parrotbill
• Marsh babbler
• Falcated wren-babbler
• Bornean wren-babbler
• Cordillera ground warbler
• Rusty-throated wren-babbler
• Pale-throated wren-babbler
• Tawny-breasted wren-babbler
• Nonggang babbler
• Snowy-throated babbler
• Hinde's babbler
• Slender-billed babbler

Old World flycatchers

• White-headed robin-chat
• Sunda blue flycatcher
• Little slaty flycatcher
• Palawan flycatcher
• Kashmir flycatcher
• Blackthroat
• Nimba flycatcher
• Dapple-throat
• Chapin's flycatcher
• Ashy-breasted flycatcher
• Brown-chested jungle flycatcher
• White-browed jungle flycatcher
• Luzon water redstart
• White-throated bush chat
• White-browed bush chat
• Iringa akalat
• Swynnerton's robin

Ploceids

• Bannerman's weaver
• Kilombero weaver
• Yellow-legged weaver
• Finn's weaver
• Loango weaver

Bulbuls

• Yellow-bearded greenbul
• Mauritius bulbul
• Styan's bulbul
• Yellow-throated bulbul

*Hook-billed bulbul

Tanagers

• Yellow-green tanager
• Black-and-gold tanager
• Masked mountain tanager
• Green warbler finch
• Yellow-green bush tanager
• Tucumán mountain finch
• Pearly-breasted conebill
• Tamarugo conebill
• Scarlet-breasted dacnis
• Turquoise dacnis
• Slaty-backed hemispingus
• White-capped tanager
• Straw-backed tanager
• Seven-coloured tanager
• Black-backed tanager
• Orange-throated tanager

Manakins

• Opal-crowned manakin
• Golden-crowned manakin
• Wied's tyrant-manakin
• Black-capped piprites
• Yellow-headed manakin

Swallows

• Blue swallow
• White-tailed swallow
• Peruvian martin
• Sinaloa martin
• Golden swallow

Tyrant flycatchers

• White-tailed shrike-tyrant
• Strange-tailed tyrant
• Cock-tailed tyrant
• Tawny-chested flycatcher
• Ochraceous attila
• Rufous twistwing
• Lemon-browed flycatcher
• Sharp-tailed grass tyrant
• Noronha elaenia
• Fork-tailed tody-tyrant
• Buff-breasted tody-tyrant
• Grey-breasted flycatcher
• Foothill elaenia
• Cocos flycatcher
• Western royal-flycatcher
• Atlantic royal flycatcher
• Slaty becard
• Yungas tyrannulet
• Russet-winged spadebill
• Black-and-white monjita
• Red-billed tyrannulet
• Mishana tyrannulet

Honeyeaters

• Painted honeyeater
• MacGregor's honeyeater
• Long-bearded melidectes
• Rotuma myzomela
• Stitchbird
• Dusky friarbird

Estrildid finches

• Green avadavat
• Shelley's crimsonwing
• Pink-billed parrotfinch
• Royal parrotfinch
• Green-faced parrotfinch
• Anambra waxbill
• Grey-banded mannikin

Other passerine species

• Pale-bellied myna
• Carpentarian grasswren
• White-throated grasswren
• Banded green sunbird
• Yellow-breasted pipit
• Ochre-breasted pipit
• Nilgiri pipit
• Sprague's pipit
• White-winged apalis
• Karamoja apalis
• Rarotonga starling
• Mountain starling
• Red-shouldered vanga
• Western chat-tanager
• Western wattled cuckooshrike
• Red lark
• Philippine leafbird
• Rufous-throated dipper
• Abbott's starling
• Black-bibbed cicadabird
• White-winged cuckooshrike
• Mauritius cuckooshrike
• Hoffmanns's woodcreeper
• Black-belted flowerpecker
• Scarlet-collared flowerpecker
• Mayotte drongo
• Visayan broadbill
• Wattled broadbill
• Rudd's lark
• Brigida's woodcreeper
• Uniform woodcreeper
• Nava's wren
• Green-breasted bushshrike
• Hood mockingbird
• Rockefeller's sunbird
• Rufous-winged sunbird
• Giant sunbird
• Yellow-bellied sunbird-asity
• Red-tailed newtonia
• Bernier's vanga
• São Tomé oriole
• Red-lored whistler
• Goldie's bird-of-paradise
• Blue bird-of-paradise
• White-naped tit
• Abd al-Kuri sparrow
• White-necked rockfowl
• Grey-necked rockfowl
• Grey-crowned prinia
• Sierra Leone prinia
• Yellow-crested helmetshrike
• Grauer's broadbill
• Malaita fantail
• Manus fantail
• Tacarcuna tapaculo
• Beautiful nuthatch
• Corsican nuthatch
• White-faced starling
• Bendire's thrasher
• Cobb's wren
• Clarión wren
• San Andres vireo
• New Zealand rockwren
• Moustached woodcreeper

Caprimulgiformes

• Seychelles swiftlet
• Atiu swiftlet
• Santa Marta blossomcrown
• Dark-rumped swift
• Bonaparte's nightjar
• Nechisar nightjar
• Little woodstar
• Perija starfrontlet
• Black inca
• White-winged nightjar
• White-tailed hummingbird
• Satanic nightjar
• Solomons nightjar
• Pink-throated brilliant
• Dot-eared coquette
• Buffy helmetcrest
• Ecuadorian piedtail
• Schouteden's swift
• Mexican woodnymph

Cuckoos

• Coral-billed ground cuckoo
• Green-billed coucal
• Sunda coucal
• Short-toed coucal
• Cocos cuckoo
• Rufous-vented ground cuckoo
• Red-faced malkoha

Piciformes

("Woodpecker-like")

• Black-girdled barbet
• White-mantled barbet
• Five-coloured barbet
• Scarlet-banded barbet
• Kaempfer's woodpecker
• Atlantic black-breasted woodpecker
• Javan flameback
• Fernandina's flicker
• Andaman woodpecker
• Coppery-chested jacamar
• Pale-throated barbet
• Helmeted woodpecker
• Three-toed jacamar
• Chaplin's barbet
• Southern sooty woodpecker
• Great slaty woodpecker
• Sulu pygmy woodpecker
• White-bellied piculet
• Yellow-ridged toucan (Ramphastos culminatus)
• White-throated toucan
• Channel-billed toucan

Other bird species

• Javan trogon
• Woolly-necked stork
• Lesser adjutant
• Andean flamingo
• Horned grebe
• Ruspoli's turaco

See also

• Lists of IUCN Red List vulnerable species
• List of least concern birds
• List of near threatened birds
• List of endangered birds
• List of critically endangered birds
• List of recently extinct birds
• List of data deficient birds

References

1. "IUCN Red List version 2019-3". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 10 December 2019.
2. "Limitations of the Data". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 11 January 2016.
3. "2001 Categories & Criteria (version 3.1)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 11 January 2016.