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Taxonomic note
Wattles of bare skin on neck and solitary behaviour at nesting mound may imply that species is more closely related to Alectura than to Talegalla, although breeding habits of latter virtually unknown. Doubtful subspecies pyrrhopygius (Vogelkop) and arfaki (Arfak Mts) currently treated within nominate; also provisionally included is hypothetical population of Yapen I (known from single specimen), which might be a separate subspecies, as bare skin of head and neck are red, not pale blue-white (Jones et al. 1995). Two subspecies currently recognized.

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
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	high
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	685,000 km2
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	6700-670000 mature individuals	poor	estimated	2009
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	7.95 years	-	-	-

Population justification: This species is considered to have a high dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 4.4% within its mapped range over the past three generations (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). It is therefore tentatively suspected that this rate of cover loss may have led to a decline of between 1-19% in the species' population size over the same time frame, with a best estimate of reduction being less than 5%.

Trend justification:   .

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Indonesia	extant	native		yes
Papua New Guinea	extant	native		yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane	major	resident
Altitude	750 - 2800 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: Wattled Brushturkey Aepypodius arfakianus. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/wattled-brushturkey-aepypodius-arfakianus on 25/12/2024.
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 25/12/2024.