The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Hippolais olivetorum

 – Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: PASSERIFORMES
Family: SYLVIIDAE
Scientific Name: Hippolais olivetorum
Species Authority: (Strickland, 1837)
Common Name/s:
EnglishOLIVE-TREE WARBLER

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 100,000–1,000,000 km². It has a large global population, including an estimated 21,000–45,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified, 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 100,000-1,000,000 km². It has a large global population, including an estimated 21,000-45,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified, 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:

Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Egypt; Ethiopia; Greece; Israel; Kenya; Kuwait; Lebanon; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Malawi; Montenegro; South Africa; Sudan; Syrian Arab Republic; Tanzania, United Republic of; Turkey; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe


Vagrant:

Algeria; Cameroon; Djibouti; Eritrea; Germany; Italy; Jordan; Niger; Nigeria; Romania; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; Spain; Ukraine

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial

Citation: BirdLife International 2004. Hippolais olivetorum. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2008.
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