Moorland Francolin (Scleroptila psilolaema) - BirdLife species factsheet

Moorland Francolin Scleroptila psilolaema

Current view: Reference and further resources

References

Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.

Donald, P.F., Fernando, E., Brown, L., Busana, M., Butchart, S.H.M., Chng, S., Colina, A.d.l., Ferreira, J.M., Jain, A., Jones, V.R., Lapido, R., Malsch, K., McDougall, A., Muccio, C., Nguyen, D., Outhwaite, W., Petrovan, S.O., Stafford, C., Sutherland, W.J., Tallowin, O. and Safford, R. 2024. Assessing the global prevalence of wild birds in trade. Conservation Biology (in press).

eBird. 2023. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. Ithaca, New York. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: http://www.ebird.org.

Gedeon, K., Zewdie, C. and Töpfer, T. 2017. The birds (Aves) of Oromia, Ethiopia – an annotated checklist. European Journal of Taxonomy 306: 1-69.

IUCN. 2024. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 22 October 2024).

Kirwan, G.M., del Hoyo, J., McGowan, P.J.K., Christie, D.A., Collar, N. 2022. Moorland Francolin (Scleroptila psilolaema), version 2.1. In Birds of the World (B.K. Keeney, Editor). Ithaca, NY, USA. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.moofra2.02.1. (Accessed: 8th July, 2024).

McSweeney, C., New , M. and Lizcano G. 2010. UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Ethiopia. Available from: http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/climate/projects/undp-cp/.

Redman, N., Stevenson, T. and Fanshawe, J. 2009. Birds of the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Socotra. Christopher Helm, London.

Further resources

IUCN SSC Galliformes Specialist Group

Search for photos and videos, and hear sounds of this species from the Macaulay Library

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Moorland Francolin Scleroptila psilolaema. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/moorland-francolin-scleroptila-psilolaema 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.