Family: Aegothelidae (Owlet-nightjars)

Authority: Layard & Layard, 1881

Red List Category

Criteria: C2a(i); D

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Justification of Red List category
Known only from two specimens, one sighting in the 1990s and only three other reports, this very poorly known species is classified as Critically Endangered on the basis of a tiny known population which is presumed to be undergoing a continuing decline.

Population size: 1-49 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 12 km²

Country endemic: yes

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Terrestrial