Data Zone
Justification of Red List category
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence under 20,000 km² combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (under 10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be over 10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (over 30% decline over ten years or three generations). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Population justification
The global population size has not been quantified, but this species is described as 'uncommon and patchily distributed' (Stotz et al. 1996). This species is considered to have a high dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 1.8% within its mapped range over the past 10 years (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). It is therefore tentatively suspected that this rate of cover loss may have led to a decline of between 1-19% in the species' population size over the same time frame, with a best estimate of reduction being less than 5%.
Trend justification
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This species's range extends from southeastern Colombia through northeastern Ecuador and extreme northeastern Peru to northern Brazil, southern and eastern Venezuela, northern Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
Inhabits humid evergreen forest. Largely restricted to terra firme forest, only occasionally entering floodplain-forest; even along rivers and on islands apparently restricted to dry ground and not in flooded forest, being replaced in latter by C. trochilirostris. In some parts of range (especially in southern Amazonia) closely associated with bamboo thickets or forests rich in vine tangles, where ecological separation less clear. Generally in interior of mature forest or dense thickets of bamboo, but sometimes visits forest edge. Tropical lowlands, primarily below 500 m, but reaching 700 m in southern Suriname and sight record at 900 m in eastern Venezuela.
Text account compilers
Rutherford, C.A.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Curve-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus procurvoides. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/curve-billed-scythebill-campylorhamphus-procurvoides on 22/12/2024.
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 22/12/2024.