Family: Phasianidae (Pheasants, Partridges, Turkeys, Grouse)

Authority: (Ogilvie-Grant, 1891)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
Although this species may have a restricted range, it is not believed to 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). In addition, although it is suspected to have declined and to continue declining in the future, the rate of population reduction is not believed to be decreasing sufficiently rapidly to approach the thresholds under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, 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 this reason, the species has been classified as Least Concern. 

Further work is required to allow the creation of a reasonable population size estimate, which if found to be smaller than suspected and there is evidence of a continuing decline, for example through loss from previously occupied sites, then the species may require reassessment at a higher threat category in the future.

Population size: unknown

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 1,930,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Afrotropical
IUCN System - Terrestrial