The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Falco longipennis

 – Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: FALCONIFORMES
Family: FALCONIDAE
Scientific Name: Falco longipennis
Species Authority: Swainson, 1837
Common Name/s: AUSTRALIAN HOBBY (Eng)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LC    ver 3.1 (2001)
Year Assessed: 2004
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Evaluator/s: Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
Justification: This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000–10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 10,000–100,000 individuals (Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001). Global population trends have not been quantified; there is evidence of population fluctuations (Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001), but 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.
History:
1988-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
1994-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
2000-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description: This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 1,000,000-10,000,000 km. It has a large global population estimated to be 10,000-100,000 individuals (Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001). Global population trends have not been quantified; there is evidence of population fluctuations (Ferguson-Lees et al. 2001), but 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.
Countries: Native:

Australia; Indonesia; Papua New Guinea

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial

Citation: BirdLife International 2004. Falco longipennis. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 July 2008.
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