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Taxonomic note

The genus Suthora has been moved from the family Sylviidae to Paradoxornithidae following Cai et al. (2019). Suthora fulvifrons (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) was previously listed as Paradoxornis fulvifrons.
Birds reported from W Arunachal Pradesh, in NE India, included in nominate, but may belong with subspecies chayulensis. Four subspecies recognized.

Taxonomic source(s)
Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International. 2021. Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 6. Available at: https://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v6_Dec21.zip.

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	high
Land-mass type		Average mass	6 g

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	1,140,000 km2
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	1.88 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as uncommon to fairly common (del Hoyo et al. 2007). This species is considered to have a high dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 0.8% 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:   .

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Bhutan	extant	native	yes
China (mainland)	extant	native	yes
India	extant	native	yes
Myanmar	extant	native	yes
Nepal	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Nepal	Annapurna Conservation Area
Nepal	Kanchenjungha Conservation Area
Nepal	Langtang National Park
Nepal	Mai Valley forests
Nepal	Makalu Barun National Park
Nepal	Sagarmatha National Park

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane	major	resident
Forest	Temperate	suitable	resident
Altitude	2440 - 3660 m	Occasional altitudinal limits	(min) 1700 m

Purpose	Scale
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Fulvous Parrotbill Suthora fulvifrons. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/fulvous-parrotbill-suthora-fulvifrons 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.