Family: Ciconiidae (Storks)

Authority: (Horsfield, 1821)

Red List Category

Criteria: A2cd+4cd

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Justification of Red List category
This stork species has a broad distribution that spans much of South and South-East Asia (including the Greater Sundas) and remains in places locally common, including in highly modified agricultural landscapes. In the 20th century, numbers declined dramatically, leaving large parts of its former range (e.g. much of Indochina) unoccupied. The principal drivers of these declines were habitat loss and modification, and hunting/persecution. Thanks in large part to conservation measures, particularly the use of community-schemes to protect nesting birds, and an increasingly effective protected area network, recent (post 2000) rates of decline are thought to have slowed, although it is unclear what the current global population trend is. Although it is no longer at high risk of extinction, some populations are undoubtedly still declining, and the species remains vulnerable to threats. Accordingly, it is listed as Near Threatened.

Population size: 5000-15000 mature individuals

Population trend: unknown

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 13,000,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Land-mass type - shelf island
Realm - Indomalayan
Realm - Palearctic
IUCN System - Freshwater
IUCN System - Terrestrial
IUCN System - Marine