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Taxonomic note
Pericrocotus erythropygius and P. albifrons (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) were previously lumped as P. erythropygius following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and 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
2016	Least Concern

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	does not normally occur in forest
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence breeding/resident (km2)	2,480,000
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Value	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Number of mature individuals	unknown	not applicable	not applicable	0
Population trend	stable		suspected	-
Generation length (years)	2.7	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as very local and uncommon to rare (del Hoyo et al. 2005).

Trend justification: There have been some declines in possible habitat (Praveen J. in litt. 2016), but these have been very small over 3 generations, and the degree to which these have affected the species are unclear and so the population is provisionally suspected to be stable.

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding	Non-breeding	Passage
India	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable Land	suitable	resident
Grassland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	major	resident
Savanna	Dry	major	resident
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	major	resident
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Primary form used	Life stage used	Source	Scale	Level	Timing
Pets/display animals, horticulture	-	-		international	non-trivial	recent

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Species factsheet: Pericrocotus erythropygius. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/white-bellied-minivet-pericrocotus-erythropygius on 27/09/2023. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2023) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org on 27/09/2023.