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Taxonomic note

Microspingus melanoleucus (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) was previously placed in the genus Poospiza and listed as P. melanoleuca following SACC (2005 & updates); Sibley & Monroe (1990, 1993); Stotz et al. (1996).

 

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.
SACC. 2005 and updates. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
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Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2024	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Least Concern
2009	Least Concern
2008	Least Concern
2004	Least Concern
2000	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1994	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1988	Lower Risk/Least Concern

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	medium
Land-mass type		Average mass	13 g

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	1,610,000 km2	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	2.65 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but this species is described as 'common' (Stotz et al. 1996). This species is considered to have a medium dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 11.1% within its mapped range over the past 10 years (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). Therefore, as a precautionary measure, it is tentatively suspected that this loss of cover may have led to a decline of between 1-19% in the species' population size over the same time frame.

Trend justification:   .

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Argentina	extant	native	yes
Bolivia	extant	native	yes
Brazil	extant	native	yes
Paraguay	extant	native	yes
Uruguay	extant	native		yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Argentina	Itiyuro-Tuyunti
Argentina	Reserva El Bagual
Argentina	Reserva Natural Loro Hablador
Argentina	Río Bermejito
Bolivia	Área Natural de Manejo Integrado San Matías
Bolivia	KAA-IYA del Gran Chaco
Bolivia	Palmar de las Islas
Bolivia	Serranía de Aguarague
Brazil	Pantanal de Nabileque
Paraguay	Estancia Gran Siete
Paraguay	Fortín Toledo
Paraguay	Lagunas Saladas - Riacho Yacaré
Paraguay	Parque Nacional Defensores del Chaco
Paraguay	Parque Nacional Médanos del Chaco
Paraguay	Parque Nacional Teniente Enciso
Paraguay	Parque Nacional Tinfunqué - Estero Patiño
Paraguay	Pirizal
Paraguay	Pozo Hondo

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	major	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	major	resident
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	major	resident
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude	suitable	resident
Altitude	0 - 2100 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Scale
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Black-capped Warbling-finch Microspingus melanoleucus. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/black-capped-warbling-finch-microspingus-melanoleucus on 23/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/12/2024.