Passerina ciris

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PASSERIFORMES	EMBERIZIDAE

Scientific Name:

Passerina ciris

Species Authority:

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Common Name/s:

English

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Painted Bunting

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Near Threatened ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Bird, J., Butchart, S.

Contributor/s:

Butcher, G., Pashley, D., Wells, J., Rosenberg, K.

Justification:
This species has declined over the long term and apparently continues to do so at a moderately rapid rate. It is therefore considered to be Near Threatened.

History:

2004

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Near Threatened

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Passerina ciris occurs in two geographically disjunct populations: a western population breeding from northern Mexico to northern Texas, USA, and wintering in south-west Mexico; and an eastern population breeding along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Florida (USA) and wintering in southern Florida and the Caribbean³. The global population is estimated to be 3.6 million birds⁷. Populations have declined since the mid-1960s and the species has been extirpated from parts of its range in south-west and east USA and north-east Mexico^3,4,8,9. Breeding Bird Survey data from the continental USA (and for five years from north-east Mexico) indicates that the population has declined by 55% over the last 30 years^2,7, with the steepest declines in the eastern population.
Countries:	Native: Bahamas; Belize; Costa Rica; Cuba; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; United States Vagrant: Cayman Islands; Jamaica
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Population [top]

Population:	Rich et al. (2004).
Population Trend:	Decreasing

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	The western population breeds in scrub-brush habitat that remains largely intact, and the eastern population inhabits coastal plain agricultural land³.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Loss and intensification of habitat through urban development, road building and agricultural intensification, and capture for the cagebird trade are the primary threats^2,3,5, with part of the declines also being attributed to brood-parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbird. Trapping and sale in local markets occurs in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and overseas to international markets in Europe, South America and Asia^1,2,6.

Major Threat(s):

Loss and intensification of habitat through urban development, road building and agricultural intensification, and capture for the cagebird trade are the primary threats^2,3,5, with part of the declines also being attributed to brood-parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbird. Trapping and sale in local markets occurs in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and overseas to international markets in Europe, South America and Asia^1,2,6.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Conservation Actions Underway The species is monitored, but no other specific actions are known. Conservation Actions Proposed Tightly control any ongoing trade in the species. Develop an appropriate management strategy to reverse population declines. Develop a comprehensive conservation strategy including adaptive harvesting for populations in the Caribbean and Latin America¹⁰.

Conservation Actions:

Conservation Actions Underway
The species is monitored, but no other specific actions are known.

Conservation Actions Proposed
Tightly control any ongoing trade in the species. Develop an appropriate management strategy to reverse population declines. Develop a comprehensive conservation strategy including adaptive harvesting for populations in the Caribbean and Latin America¹⁰.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Passerina ciris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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