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Taxonomic note
Closely related to M. rufipennis, M. emiliana, M. magna, M. amboinensis and M. phasianella, and all six sometimes considered conspecific; present species perhaps closest to M. emiliana or M. phasianella, having at times been listed as a subspecies of one or other; species limits of group poorly understood, and further study required in order to clarify precise relationships within this whole complex. Birds of Batan sometimes separated as subspecies septentrionalis. Subspecies borneensis previously included with M. emiliana (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) but now included with this species following Ng et al. (2016). Three subspecies recognized.

Taxonomic source(s)
Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International. 2022. Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 7. Available at: https://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v7_Dec22.zip.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
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Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2022	Least Concern
2016	Not Recognised
2012	Not Recognised
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	medium
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	2,680,000 km2
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	5.6 years	-	-	-
Percentage of mature individuals in largest subpopulation	1-89%	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as usually scarce to locally common (Gibbs et al. 2001, Eaton et al. 2021).

Trend justification: The population size of this species is precautionarily suspected of declining due to ongoing forest loss in its range (Global Forest Watch 2022, based on data from Hansen et al. [2013] and methods disclosed therein). However, the rate of forest cover loss is slow (<2% in the three generations to 2021; per Global forest Watch [2022]) and it is adaptable to wooded cultivation in some parts of its range (eBird 2022). Consequently the rate of decline is expected to be slow.

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Indonesia	extant	native	yes
Malaysia	extant	native	yes
Philippines	extant	native	yes
Taiwan, China	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	major	resident
Altitude	0 - 1600 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Scale
Food - human	subsistence

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Philippine Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia tenuirostris. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/philippine-cuckoo-dove-macropygia-tenuirostris on 26/12/2024.
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 26/12/2024.