Family: Furnariidae (Ovenbirds)

Authority: Pelzeln, 1856

Red List Category

Criteria: A3c; C2a(i)

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Justification of Red List category
This species has a very small population, which is restricted to gallery forests along the upper rio Branco and its tributaries. Very rapid future declines are suspected due to proposed hydroelectric dams that could destroy a significant extent of remaining habitat, on top of ongoing rapid rates of forest cover loss in this highly limited forest type. The remaining population is considered to already have been divided by habitat loss into increasingly separate and very small subpopulations. The species is therefore listed as Endangered.

Population size: 1200-8100 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 12,500 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Realm - Neotropical
IUCN System - Terrestrial