Myadestes elisabeth

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PASSERIFORMES	TURDIDAE

Scientific Name:

Myadestes elisabeth

Species Authority:

(Lembeye, 1850)

Common Name/s:

English

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Cuban Solitaire

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Near Threatened ver 3.1

Year Published:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Mahood, S., Butchart, S.

Justification:
This species is classified as Near Threatened because it has a moderately small population and occupies a small range in which rates of habitat degradation and loss are likely to be causing a decline. However, the range is not yet severely fragmented or restricted to few locations. For these reasons, the species is classified as Near Threatened.

History:

2004

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Near Threatened

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Myadestes elisabeth is locally quite common on Cuba². In west Cuba, it is found only in Sierra de los Organos, Sierra del Rosario and Sierra de la Güira but is more widely distributed in the east². A race endemic to the Isle of Youth was extirpated in the 1930s².
Countries:	Native: Cuba
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Population [top]

Population:	The global population size has not been quantified, but this species is described as 'fairly common' (Stotz et al. (1996).
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It is found in dense montane humid forest and nests on steep limestone cliffs and in tree cavities shielded by bromeliads^2,3.4.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Throughout much of its range, forest is under conversion to cultivation and pasture, and there has been a recent expansion of cacao, coffee and tobacco production¹. However, habitat in the population stronghold of Pinar del Rio province is considered relatively secure^2,3.

Major Threat(s):

Throughout much of its range, forest is under conversion to cultivation and pasture, and there has been a recent expansion of cacao, coffee and tobacco production¹. However, habitat in the population stronghold of Pinar del Rio province is considered relatively secure^2,3.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Conservation Actions Underway None is known. Conservation Actions Proposed Protect forest in its stronghold of Pinar del Rio province. Discourage the conversion of native forest to cash-crops. Monitor the population.

Conservation Actions:

Conservation Actions Underway
None is known.

Conservation Actions Proposed
Protect forest in its stronghold of Pinar del Rio province. Discourage the conversion of native forest to cash-crops. Monitor the population.

Bibliography [top]

	Dinerstein, E.; Olson, D. M.; Graham, D. J.; Webster, A. L.; Primm, S. A.; Bookbinder, M. P.; Ledec, G. 1995. A conservation assesssment of the terrestrial ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank, Washington, D.C. Garrido, O. H.; Kirkconnell, A. 2000. Field guide to the birds of Cuba. Comstock / Cornell University Press, Ithaca. Raffaele, H.; Wiley, J.; Garrido, O.; Keith, A.; Raffaele, J. 1998. Birds of the West Indies. Christopher Helm, London. Wells, L.; Mitchell, A. 1995. The threatened birds of Cuba project.

Dinerstein, E.; Olson, D. M.; Graham, D. J.; Webster, A. L.; Primm, S. A.; Bookbinder, M. P.; Ledec, G. 1995. A conservation assesssment of the terrestrial ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank, Washington, D.C.

Garrido, O. H.; Kirkconnell, A. 2000. Field guide to the birds of Cuba. Comstock / Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

Raffaele, H.; Wiley, J.; Garrido, O.; Keith, A.; Raffaele, J. 1998. Birds of the West Indies. Christopher Helm, London.

Wells, L.; Mitchell, A. 1995. The threatened birds of Cuba project.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Myadestes elisabeth. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2012.
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