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Numida meleagris
– Least Concern
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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AVES
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Order:
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GALLIFORMES
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Family:
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NUMIDIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Numida meleagris
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Species Authority:
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(Linnaeus, 1758)
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Common Name/s:
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HELMETED GUINEAFOWL (Eng)
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LC ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2004
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Assessor/s:
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BirdLife International
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Evaluator/s:
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Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
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Justification:
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This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 1,000,000–2,500,000 individuals (del Hoyo et al. 1994, Fuller et al. 2000). Global population trends have not been quantified, but populations appear to be stable (del Hoyo et al. 1994) so the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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History:
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| 1988 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 1994 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 2000 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 1,000,000-2,500,000 individuals (del Hoyo et al. 1994, Fuller et al. 2000). Global population trends have not been quantified, but populations appear to be stable (del Hoyo et al. 1994) so the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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Countries:
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Native:
Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Lesotho; Liberia; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Morocco; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Togo; Uganda; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Introduced:
Antigua and Barbuda; Cape Verde; Comoros; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Madagascar; Mauritius; New Zealand; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Sao Tomé and Principe; United States; Virgin Islands, U.S.
Introduced (regionally extinct):
Saint Helena
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Habitat and Ecology
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System:
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Terrestrial; Freshwater
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