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Taxonomic note

Hypotaenidia woodfordi, H. tertia and H. immaculata (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) were previously previously placed in the genus Nesoclopeus and lumped as N. woodfordi following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
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Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2022	Least Concern
2016	Near Threatened	C2a(ii)
2014	Near Threatened	C2a(ii)

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	Medium
Land mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence breeding/resident (km2)	6,500	medium
Extent of Occurrence breeding/resident (km2)	5,400
Number of locations		-
Severely Fragmented		-

	Value	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
No. of mature individuals	unknown	not applicable	not applicable	0
Population trend	Unknown	poor	not applicable	-
Decline (3 years/1 generation past)		-	-	-
Decline (5 years/1 generation past)		-	-	-
Decline (10 years/1 generation past)		-	-	-
Decline (10 years/3 generation future)		-	-	-
Decline (10 years/3 generation past and future)		-	-	-
Number of subpopulations	1	-	-	-
Percentage in largest subpopulation	100	-	-	-
Generation length (yrs)	4.74	-	-	-

Population justification: The population was previously suspected to number 2,500-9,999 mature individuals, although there was no real basis for this figure. The population is here considered unknown until surveys are carried out, however it is apparently quite common in damp rank grassy areas left after logging based on playback responses (J. Wood pers. comm. 2020), even in areas with a high abundance of stray dogs.

Trend justification: The population trend is poorly known, but suspected to be stable or perhaps increasing. This species apparently thrives in damp grassy areas left after logging (J. Wood pers. comm. 2020), which is ongoing (albeit at a slow rate) in the lowlands of Guadalcanal (Global Forest Watch [2021] using the methods of Hansen et al. [2013] disclosed therein). Given its apparent co-existence with a high density of stray dogs (J. Wood pers. comm. 2020) there is no reason to suspect these are driving a continuing decline. However, this trend should be confirmed using survey data.

Country/Territory	Occurrence status	Presence	Resident	Breeding	Non-breeding	Passage
Solomon Islands	N	Extant	Yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Solomon Islands	Guadalcanal Watersheds

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	major	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Swamp	suitable	resident
Grassland	Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded	suitable	resident
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)	suitable	resident
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)	suitable	resident
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)	suitable	resident
Altitude	0 - 600 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Threat (level 1)	Threat (level 2)	Impact and Stresses
Biological resource use	Hunting & trapping terrestrial animals - Unintentional effects (species is not the target)	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Unknown		Unknown
		Stresses Reduced reproductive success, Species mortality
Invasive and other problematic species, genes & diseases	Invasive non-native/alien species/diseases - Canis familiaris	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Majority (50-90%)		No decline		Low Impact: 5
		Stresses Species mortality
Invasive and other problematic species, genes & diseases	Invasive non-native/alien species/diseases - Felis catus	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Majority (50-90%)		No decline		Low Impact: 5
		Stresses Species mortality

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Species factsheet: Hypotaenidia woodfordi. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 31/03/2023. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2023) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 31/03/2023.