Colombian Crake (Neocrex colombiana) | Details

Colombian Crake Neocrex colombiana

Current view: Data table and detailed info

Taxonomy

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

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2023	Data Deficient
2016	Data Deficient
2012	Data Deficient
2008	Data Deficient
2004	Data Deficient
2000	Data Deficient
1994	Lower Risk/Near Threatened
1988	Near Threatened

Species attributes

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

Range

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

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	unknown	-	-	-
Generation length	3.41 years	-	-	-
Number of subpopulations	2-100	-	-	-

Population justification: Subspecies ripleyi is known from two specimens taken in central Panama and north-west Colombia, and one site in east Panama (Hilty and Brown 1986, Ridgely and Gwynne 1989, Taylor and van Perlo 1998). The nominate subspecies was recorded from at least two sites (Same and Playa del Oro) in Esmeraldas, Ecuador in the 1990s, where it was considered 'not uncommon' (Tobias et al. 2006), but now known from only a few scattered records in Ecuador (Athanas and Greenfield 2016). There are no recent records from Colombia, though there is ample suitable habitat on the Pacific slope in Colombia and the lack of recent records may be due to it being overlooked (Tobias et al. 2006, Renjifo et al. 2016).

Trend justification: The overall population trend is not known (Wetlands International 2022).

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident
Colombia	extant	native	yes
Ecuador	extant	native	yes
Panama	extant	native	yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Grassland	Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded	major	resident
Wetlands (inland)	Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands	suitable	resident
Altitude	0 - 2100 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Colombian Crake Neocrex colombiana. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/colombian-crake-neocrex-colombiana on 20/12/2024.
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 20/12/2024.