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Taxonomic note

Ficedula narcissina, F. elisae and F. owstoni (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) were previously lumped as F. narcissina following AOU (1998 and supplements); Christidis and Boles (2008); Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

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	Not Recognised
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Migratory status	full migrant	Forest dependency	medium
Land-mass type		Average mass	13 g

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	2,020,000 km2
Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding)	2,240,000 km2
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	20000-49999 mature individuals	medium	estimated	2009
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	2.66 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The species is described as common or locally abundant on Sakhalin Island, and common and widespread throughout most of Japan (del Hoyo et al. 2006). There are an estimated 100-100,000 breeding pairs in Russia and 10,000-100,000 breeding pairs in Japan (Brazil 2009). This puts the species global population as c.20,000-400,000 mature individuals. We precautionarily place it in the band 20,000-49,999 mature individuals. This species is considered to have a medium dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 4.8% within its mapped range over the past 10 years (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). Therefore, as a precautionary measure, it is tentatively suspected that this loss of cover may have led to a decline of between 1-19% in the species' population size over the same time frame.

Trend justification:   .

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Australia	extant	vagrant
China (mainland)	extant	native			yes
Hong Kong (China)	extant	native				yes
Indonesia	extant	native			yes
Japan	extant	native		yes
Malaysia	extant	native			yes
Philippines	extant	native			yes
Russia	extant	native		yes
Russia (Asian)	extant	native		yes
South Korea	extant	native				yes
Taiwan, China	extant	native				yes
USA	extant	vagrant
Vietnam	extant	vagrant

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Japan	Hidaka mountains
Japan	Ishizuchi range
Japan	Lake Towada, Mount Hakkoda
Japan	Mount Hyonosen
Japan	Mounts Asahidake and Gassan
Japan	Mounts Azuma and Bandai
Japan	Mounts Kurikoma and Yakiishi
Japan	Mounts Nogo-hakusan and Ibuki
Japan	Shirakami mountains

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable Land	marginal	non-breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Rural Gardens	suitable	non-breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	non-breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level	suitable	non-breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	suitable	breeding
Forest	Temperate	suitable	breeding
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Moist	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)	suitable	breeding
Altitude	0 - 1800 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Scale
Food - human	subsistence, national
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/narcissus-flycatcher-ficedula-narcissina on 22/12/2024.
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 22/12/2024.