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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). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not 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 the species is described as locally common (del Hoyo et al. 2006). The population is suspected to be stable in the absence of evidence for any declines or substantial threats.

Trend justification
The population is suspected to be stable in the absence of evidence for any declines or substantial threats.

This species was described as recently as 1991, and was previously known only from southern Chad, northern Cameroon, north-west Nigeria, northern Côte d'Ivoire (C. Chappuis 1999 per F. Dowsett-Lemaire in litt. 2000) and the Gambia (Barlow et al. 1997). However it has recently been demonstrated that the taxon C. ruficeps guinea, whose voice was previously unknown, is conspecific with this species (Dowsett-Lemaire et al. 2005). It is therefore now known to also occur in Mali, Togo, Ghana, Niger, Benin, Senegal and Sudan (Dowsett-Lemaire et al. 2005).

The species is tolerant of habitat degradation.

Text account compilers
Rutherford, C.A.

Contributors
Dowsett, R.J.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Dorst's Cisticola Cisticola guinea. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/dorsts-cisticola-cisticola-guinea on 22/11/2024.
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 22/11/2024.