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Taxonomic note
Lophotis savilei (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) was previously placed in the genus Eupodotis.

Lophotis (Eupodotis) ruficrista, L. savilei and L. gindiana (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who included savilei and gindiana as subspecies of E. ruficrista.

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
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2024	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	not a migrant	Forest dependency	does not normally occur in forest
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	4,380,000 km2
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	stable	-	suspected	-
Generation length	7.95 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified. There is Little information available about the species but it is reportedly fairly common throughout its range (del Hoyo et al. 1996). The population is suspected to be stable in the absence of evidence for any declines or substantial threats.

Trend justification: The population is suspected to be stable in the absence of evidence for any declines or substantial threats.

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Benin	extant	native	yes
Burkina Faso	extant	native	yes
Cameroon	extant	native	yes
Chad	extant	native	yes
Mali	extant	native	yes
Mauritania	extant	native	yes
Niger	extant	native	yes
Nigeria	extant	native	yes
Senegal	extant	native	yes
Sudan	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Cameroon	Logone flood-plain
Cameroon	Waza National Park
Chad	Ouadi Rimé - Ouadi Achim
Niger	'W' National Park
Niger	Dallol Boboye
Niger	Makalondi district
Nigeria	Chad Basin National Park: Chingurmi - Duguma Sector
Nigeria	Hadejia-Nguru wetlands
Nigeria	Sambisa Game Reserve
Senegal	Ferlo North
Senegal	Ferlo South
Senegal	River Sénégal (Ntiagar to Richard-Toll)
Sudan	En Nahud

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Savanna	Dry	major	resident
Shrubland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	major	resident
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Scale
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Savile's Bustard Lophotis savilei. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/saviles-bustard-lophotis-savilei on 23/12/2024.
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 23/12/2024.