Family: Muscicapidae (Old World Flycatchers and Chats)

Authority: (Büttikofer, 1886)

Red List Category

Criteria: B1b(i,ii,iii)

Click here for more information about the Red List categories and criteria

Justification of Red List category
This species has a small range and extent of occurrence, within which there is evidence of a continuing decline in area of occupancy, habitat extent and quality, and, because of forest loss on the periphery of its range, extent of occurrence. Increasingly habitat losses in interior forests are being lost and degraded, especially on Yamdena. For now there is no evidence that the species is confined to a limited number of locations, and hence approaches, but does not meet, the thresholds for threatened under Criterion B. Accordingly is is assessed as Near Threatened. For now there is no evidence that the species is declining very rapidly, nor that it has a small population size, although both factors should be monitored closely.

Population size: 25000-50000 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 5,000 km²

Country endemic: yes