Oryzoborus crassirostris

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PASSERIFORMES	EMBERIZIDAE

Scientific Name:

Oryzoborus crassirostris

Species Authority:

(Gmelin, 1789)

Common Name(s):

English

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Large-billed Seed-finch, Large-billed Seed Finch, Large-billed Seed-Finch

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2012
Date Assessed:	2012-05-01
Assessor(s):	BirdLife International
Reviewer(s):	Symes, A. & Butchart, S.
Contributor(s):	Acevedo , O., Bayly, N., Sharpe, C J, De Luca, A. & Clay, R.
Facilitator/Compiler(s):	Butchart, S., Ekstrom, J., Fisher, S., Harding, M., Sharpe, C J
Justification: This species has an extremely 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.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species occurs in north and east Colombia (in humid Caribbean lowlands west to Córdoba and locally east of the Andes), where it may be expanding its range following deforestation (Stiles et al. 1999), Venezuela (not recorded from the north-west or from most of the llanos region), Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Amazonian Brazil (south only to the Amazon), and north-east Peru (Loreto to Huánuco); it may persist in small numbers on Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago (ffrench 1992, Ridgely and Tudor 1989).
Countries:	Native: Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; French Guiana; Guyana; Peru; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
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Population [top]

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

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	The species inhabits freshwater marshes, riparian thickets and second-growth scrub, mostly below 500 m but it has been recorded to 700 m (Ridgely and Tudor 1989, Stotz et al. 1996).
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The principal threat is the depletion of local populations by bird trappers (Ridgely and Tudor 1989, R. Clay in litt. 2010, C. J. Sharpe in litt. 2011), although this is not considered a threat in Colombia (F. G. Stiles in litt. 1999).

Major Threat(s):

The principal threat is the depletion of local populations by bird trappers (Ridgely and Tudor 1989, R. Clay in litt. 2010, C. J. Sharpe in litt. 2011), although this is not considered a threat in Colombia (F. G. Stiles in litt. 1999).

Citation:	BirdLife International 2012. Oryzoborus crassirostris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 January 2015.
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