(Gallinula chloropus) - BirdLife species factsheet

Gallinula chloropus

Current view: Data table and detailed info

Taxonomy

Taxonomic source(s)
AERC TAC. 2003. AERC TAC Checklist of bird taxa occurring in Western Palearctic region, 15th Draft. Available at: http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Bird_taxa_of_the_WP15.xls.
Cramp, S.; Perrins, C. M. 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
SACC. 2006. 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
2016	Not Recognised
2014	Not Recognised
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

Species attributes

Migratory status	unset	Forest dependency	unset
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend		-	-	-

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Afghanistan	extant	native		yes
Albania	extant	native	yes
Algeria	extant	native
Angola	extant	native
Anguilla (to UK)	extant	native
Antigua and Barbuda	extant	native
Argentina	extant	native
Armenia	extant	native		yes
Aruba (to Netherlands)	extant	native
Austria	extant	native	yes
Azerbaijan	extant	native	yes
Bahamas	extant	native
Bahrain	extant	native	yes			yes
Bangladesh	extant	native
Barbados	extant	native
Belarus	extant	native	yes
Belgium	extant	native	yes
Belize	extant	native
Benin	extant	native
Bermuda (to UK)	extant	native		yes
Bolivia	extant	native
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (to Netherlands)	extant	native
Bosnia and Herzegovina	extant	native		yes
Botswana	extant	native
Brazil	extant	native
Brunei	extant	native
Bulgaria	extant	native	yes
Burkina Faso	extant	native
Burundi	extant	native
Cambodia	extant	native
Cameroon	extant	native
Canada	extant	native		yes
Cape Verde	extant	native
Cayman Islands (to UK)	extant	native
Central African Republic	extant	native
Chad	extant	native
Chile	extant	native
China (mainland)	extant	native
Colombia	extant	native
Comoros	extant	native
Congo	extant	native
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	extant	native
Costa Rica	extant	native			yes
Côte d'Ivoire	extant	native
Croatia	extant	native	yes
Cuba	extant	native
Curaçao (to Netherlands)	extant	native
Cyprus	extant	native	yes
Czechia	extant	native	yes
Denmark	extant	native	yes
Djibouti	extant	native
Dominica	extant	native
Dominican Republic	extant	native
Ecuador	extant	native
Egypt	extant	native
El Salvador	extant	native
Equatorial Guinea	extinct	native
Eritrea	extant	native
Estonia	extant	native	yes
Eswatini	extant	native
Ethiopia	extant	native
Faroe Islands (to Denmark)	extant	vagrant
Finland	extant	native	yes
France	extant	native	yes			yes
French Guiana	extant	native
Gambia	extant	native
Georgia	extant	native		yes
Germany	extant	native	yes			yes
Ghana	extant	native
Gibraltar (to UK)	extant	vagrant
Greece	extant	native	yes			yes
Greenland (to Denmark)	extant	vagrant
Grenada	extant	native
Guadeloupe (to France)	extant	native
Guam (to USA)	extant	native		yes
Guatemala	extant	native
Guinea	extant	native
Guinea-Bissau	extant	native
Guyana	extant	native
Haiti	extant	native
Honduras	extant	native
Hong Kong (China)	extant	native		yes
Hungary	extant	native	yes
Iceland	extant	vagrant
India	extant	native
Indonesia	extant	native
Iran, Islamic Republic of	extant	native	yes
Iraq	extant	native	yes			yes
Ireland	extant	native	yes
Israel	extant	native		yes
Italy	extant	native	yes
Jamaica	extant	native		yes
Japan	extant	native
Jordan	extant	native			yes	yes
Kazakhstan	extant	native		yes
Kenya	extant	native
Kuwait	extant	native	yes			yes
Kyrgyzstan	extant	native		yes
Laos	extant	native
Latvia	extant	native	yes
Lebanon	extant	native	yes			yes
Lesotho	extant	native
Liberia	extant	native
Libya	extant	native
Liechtenstein	extant	native	yes
Lithuania	extant	native		yes
Luxembourg	extant	native	yes
Macao (China)	extant	native
Madagascar	extant	native
Malawi	extant	native
Malaysia	extant	native
Maldives	extant	native		yes
Mali	extant	native
Malta	extant	native	yes
Martinique (to France)	extant	native
Mauritania	extant	native
Mauritius	extant	native
Mayotte (to France)	extant	native
Mexico	extant	native
Micronesia, Federated States of	extant	native		yes
Moldova	extant	native	yes
Mongolia	extant	native		yes
Montenegro	extant	native	yes
Montserrat (to UK)	extant	native
Morocco	extant	native
Mozambique	extant	native
Myanmar	extant	native
Namibia	extant	native
Nepal	extant	native
Netherlands	extant	native	yes
Nicaragua	extant	native
Niger	extant	native
Nigeria	extant	native
North Korea	extant	native		yes
North Macedonia	extant	native	yes
Northern Mariana Islands (to USA)	extant	native		yes
Norway	extant	native		yes
Oman	extant	native	yes
Pakistan	extant	native
Palau	extant	native		yes
Palestine	extant	native			yes
Panama	extant	native
Paraguay	extant	native
Peru	extant	native
Philippines	extant	native
Poland	extant	native	yes
Portugal	extant	native	yes
Puerto Rico (to USA)	extant	native
Qatar	extant	native	yes
Réunion (to France)	extant	native
Romania	extant	native	yes
Russia (Asian)	extant	native		yes
Russia (Central Asian)	extant	native		yes
Russia (European)	extant	native		yes
Rwanda	extant	native
São Tomé e Príncipe	extant	native
Saudi Arabia	extant	native	yes			yes
Senegal	extant	native
Serbia	extant	native	yes
Seychelles	extant	native
Sierra Leone	extant	native
Singapore	extant	native
Sint Maarten (to Netherlands)	extant	native
Slovakia	extant	native	yes			yes
Slovenia	extant	native	yes
Somalia	extant	native
South Africa	extant	native
South Korea	extant	native
Spain	extant	native	yes
Sri Lanka	extant	native
St Helena (to UK)	extant	native		yes
St Kitts and Nevis	extant	native
St Lucia	extant	native
St Martin (to France)	extant	native
St Pierre and Miquelon (to France)	extant	vagrant				yes
St Vincent and the Grenadines	extant	native
Sudan	extant	native			yes
Suriname	extant	native
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	extant	vagrant
Sweden	extant	native	yes
Switzerland	extant	native	yes
Syria	extant	native	yes			yes
Taiwan, China	extant	native
Tajikistan	extant	native		yes
Tanzania	extant	native
Thailand	extant	native
Togo	extant	native
Trinidad and Tobago	extant	native
Tunisia	extant	native
Türkiye	extant	native	yes
Turkmenistan	extant	native		yes
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK)	extant	native
Uganda	extant	native
Ukraine	extant	native	yes
United Arab Emirates	extant	native	yes			yes
United Kingdom	extant	native	yes
Uruguay	extant	native		yes
USA	extant	native		yes
Uzbekistan	extant	native		yes
Venezuela	extant	native
Vietnam	extant	native
Virgin Islands (to UK)	extant	native	yes
Virgin Islands (to USA)	extant	native	yes
Yemen	extant	native	yes
Zambia	extant	native
Zimbabwe	extant	native

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name
India	Mangal Jodi
Mali	Lac Fati
Mauritania	Sawana - Oum Lellé
Peru	Laguna de Ite

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Gallinula chloropus. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/gallinula-chloropus 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.