Current view: Data table and detailed info
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.
IUCN Red List criteria met and history
Red List criteria met
Red List history
Migratory status |
not a migrant |
Forest dependency |
medium |
Land-mass type |
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Average mass |
- |
Population justification: In this species' range, there was c. 3,000 km2 of forest (with >50% canopy cover) in 2021 (per Global Forest Watch 2022, based on data from Hansen et al. [2013] and methods disclosed therein). There are no direct density estimates available for this species, but other Coracina cuckooshrikes in Wallacea have been recorded at c.15-40 mature individuals/km2 (see, e.g., Poulsen et al. [1999]). Adopting the 25th and 75th percentiles, C. fortis is inferred to occur at a density of c. 22-33 mature individuals/km2. The species may occur at a relatively low occupancy (see Marsden et al. 1997, eBird 2022), which is set here to 20-40% on the grounds that not all forest will be suitable and/or occupied. These parameters give a total population of c.13,00-40,000 mature individuals, although the data quality of this inferred population size is set to low.
Trend justification: In the three generations (12.6 years; Bird et al. 2020) to 2022, forest cover in this species' range reduced by c. 5-6% (Global Forest Watch 2022, based on data from Hansen et al. [2013] and methods disclosed therein), and this is thought to have had broadly equivalent impacts on the species population size. Thus the species is suspected of having declined by 1-9% (with a best estimate of 5%) over the past ten years, and the same rate is precautionarily projected into the future.
Country/territory distribution
Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Buru Cuckooshrike Coracina fortis. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/buru-cuckooshrike-coracina-fortis 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.