Family: Aegothelidae (Owlet-nightjars)

Authority: Pratt, 2000

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species is very poorly known, but is not believed to be threatened. Although known from only a handful of sites, these encompass a large area of suitable habitat which it is believed to inhabit, thus does not 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). Despite the fact that the population trend is precautionarily suspected to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over three generations). The population size is unknown, but is not suspected to be sufficiently small 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 these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Population size: unknown

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 53,600 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Terrestrial