Accipiter princeps

– Near Threatened

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

AVES

Order:

FALCONIFORMES

Family:

ACCIPITRIDAE

Scientific Name:

Accipiter princeps

Species Authority:

Mayr, 1934

Common Name/s:

English	—	NEW BRITAIN GOSHAWK
French	—	AUTOUR DE MAYR
Spanish	—	AZOR DE NUEVA BRETAÑA

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

NT ver 3.1 (2001)

Year Assessed:

2004

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Evaluator/s:

Butchart, S. & Stattersfield, A. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)

Justification:

Nearly qualifies for listing as threatened under criteria C2a(ii).

History:

1988	-	Near-threatened (Collar and Andrew 1988)
1994	-	Lower Risk/near threatened (Collar, Crosby and Stattersfield 1994)
2000	-	Lower Risk/near threatened (BirdLife International 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description:

Accipiter princeps is endemic to New Britain, Papua New Guinea. It is known from four specimens and a handful of recent records, mostly in lower montane forest to 1,600 m but once down to 200 m ^2,3,4,5,6 and there is one probable record from 50 m ¹. Whilst lowland forests are being extensively logged and cleared on New Britain, there is little logging activity in the mountains and even though the population may prove to be small, it is likely to be declining only slowly. CITES Appendix II.

Countries:

Native:

Papua New Guinea

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

1.6	Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9	Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Threats

List of Threats:

1.9	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Unknown causes (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.

BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.

BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.

Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2004. Accipiter princeps. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 28 August 2008.
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