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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | FALCONIFORMES | CATHARTIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Sarcoramphus papa | |||
| Species Authority: | (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 | |||||||||
| Year Published: | 2012 | |||||||||
| Assessor/s: | BirdLife International | |||||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Butchart, 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 may be small, 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. |
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| Countries: | Native: Argentina; Belize; Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; Venezuela |
| Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
| Population: | Partners in Flight estimated the population to number fewer than 50,000 individuals (A. Panjabi in litt. 2008). Ferguson-Lees et al. (2001) suggest it is likely to number 1,000-10,000 individuals, roughly equating to 670-6,700 mature individuals. |
| Population Trend: |
Decreasing
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| Systems: | Terrestrial |
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Ferguson-Lees, J.; Christie, D. A. 2001. Raptors of the world. Christopher Helm, London. IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2012.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 19 June 2012). |
| Citation: | BirdLife International 2012. Sarcoramphus papa. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013. |
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