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Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions 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
2021	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
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

Migratory status	full migrant	Forest dependency	low
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	11,300,000 km2	medium
Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding)	12,500,000 km2	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	poor	suspected	2009
Population trend	stable	-	suspected	-
Generation length	6.76 years	-	-	-

Population justification: No data on population size, however the species is generally regarded as common, and a five-figure population is suspected based on wide distribution (Ferguson-Lees & Christie 2001).

Trend justification: The population is suspected to be increasing locally as ongoing cutting of rain forest in West Africa is creating new areas of suitable habitat (Ferguson-Lees and Christie 2001). Between 1969-1973 and 2000-2004 the species was reported to have declined outside protected areas in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger but numbers were stable or increasing within protected areas (Thiollay 2007). The trend outside protected areas was stable in Cameroon. The species has reportedly become much less common on fetish markets in West Africa, which may indicate a decline in some areas (Nikolaus 2011). Overall, the population is suspected to be stable.

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Angola	extant	native	yes
Benin	extant	native	yes
Botswana	extant	vagrant
Burkina Faso	extant	native	yes
Cameroon	extant	native	yes
Central African Republic	extant	native	yes
Chad	extant	native	yes
Congo	extant	native	yes
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	extant	native	yes
Côte d'Ivoire	extant	native	yes
Equatorial Guinea	extant	native	yes
Ethiopia	extant	native	yes
Gabon	extant	native	yes
Gambia	extant	native			yes
Ghana	extant	native	yes
Guinea	extant	native	yes
Liberia	extant	native	yes
Mali	extant	native	yes
Mauritania	extant	native			yes
Namibia	extant	vagrant
Niger	extant	native	yes
Nigeria	extant	native	yes
Senegal	extant	native	yes		yes
Sierra Leone	extant	native	yes
South Africa	extant	vagrant
South Sudan	extant	native	yes
Sudan	extant	native	yes
Togo	extant	native	yes
Uganda	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Plantations	suitable	non-breeding
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	major	breeding
Savanna	Dry	major	non-breeding
Altitude	0 - 2500 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Threat (level 1)	Threat (level 2)	Impact and Stresses
Agriculture & aquaculture	Livestock farming & ranching - Small-holder grazing, ranching or farming	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Negligible declines		Low Impact: 4
		Stresses Ecosystem degradation
Biological resource use	Hunting & trapping terrestrial animals - Intentional use (species is the target)	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Unknown		Unknown
		Stresses Species mortality
Biological resource use	Hunting & trapping terrestrial animals - Unintentional effects (species is not the target)	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Negligible declines		Low Impact: 4
		Stresses Ecosystem degradation
Biological resource use	Logging & wood harvesting - Unintentional effects: (large scale) [harvest]	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Negligible declines		Low Impact: 4
		Stresses Ecosystem degradation
Biological resource use	Logging & wood harvesting - Unintentional effects: (subsistence/small scale) [harvest]	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Negligible declines		Low Impact: 4
		Stresses Ecosystem degradation

Purpose	Scale
Food - human	subsistence
Medicine - human & veterinary	subsistence
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/red-necked-buzzard-buteo-auguralis 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.