Current view: Data table and detailed info
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.
IUCN Red List criteria met and history
Red List criteria met
Red List history
Migratory status |
not a migrant |
Forest dependency |
medium |
Land-mass type |
continent
|
Average mass |
- |
Population justification: Population size unknown. Area of suitable habitat is vast within its range, within which this species is often found to be common/regularly encountered (e.g. Madge and McGowan 2002, Brooks et al. 2019, Li et al. 2022, eBird 2024). While hunting is considered a local threat, much of this species' range is remote from where this could plausibly be considered a threat capable of globally suppressing numbers to a density low enough to suspect the population size might be small. Accordingly, while the population size is not formally estimated here, it is considered highly likely to number in the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands.
Trend justification: Population trend difficult to establish, but suspected here to be stable. Plausible operating threats to this species include habitat loss/degradation and hunting, but these have largely been on a local scale with large parts of this species' vast range remaining remote from exploitation and degradation. Habitat extent loss between 2010 and 2020 within its range was minimal (<1%) with some evidence that reforestation efforts in some provinces (particularly Sichuan) since the late 1990s may have increased the area of habitat suitable for this species (data analysed from sRedList [2023] using data from Jung et al. [2020]), while in the western parts of its range it likely benefits from traditional Tibetan culture, which prohibits the species' exploitation.
Country/territory distribution
Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: White Eared-pheasant Crossoptilon crossoptilon. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/white-eared-pheasant-crossoptilon-crossoptilon on 18/12/2024.
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 18/12/2024.