| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Passeriformes | Fringillidae |
| Scientific Name: | Carduelis flammea | |||
| Species Authority: | (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||
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| Taxonomic Notes: | Carduelis flammea (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) was split into C. flammea, Common Redpoll and C. cabaret, Lesser Redpoll (Knox 1988, Knox et al. 2001; see Sangster et al. 2002) but this treatment is not adopted by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group following Ottvall et al. (2002). The Hoary or Arctic Redpoll (form hornemanni) is described as differing from flammea ‘in measurements, structure and plumage’, but in reality the differences reflect the more northerly distribution of hornemanni (larger size, whiter plumage). Moreover, there is variation within the plumages of both taxa and they interbreed. Thus the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group regard them as conspecific. | |||
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
| Year Published: | 2013 |
| Date Assessed: | 2013-11-01 |
| Assessor(s): | BirdLife International |
| Reviewer(s): | Butchart, S. |
| Facilitator/Compiler(s): | Symes, A. |
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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 is extremely large, and hence does not 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. |
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| Countries occurrence: | Native: Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bulgaria; Canada; China; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Faroe Islands; Finland; France; Germany; Greenland; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Kazakhstan; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Romania; Russian Federation; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Serbia (Serbia); Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; Switzerland; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United States; UzbekistanIntroduced: Australia; New ZealandVagrant: Bahamas; Bermuda; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Cyprus; Jamaica; Malta; Portugal; Turkey | ||||||||||||||
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| Current Population Trend: |  Decreasing | ||||||||||||
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| Citation: | BirdLife International. 2013. Carduelis flammea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T22725044A50439105. . Downloaded on 01 October 2016. |
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