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Taxonomic note

Myrmoborus lophotes (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) was previously listed as Percnostola lophotes.

 

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
SACC. 2005 and updates. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
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Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2020	Least Concern
2016	Near Threatened	A3c
2012	Near Threatened	A3c
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)	266,000 km2	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	500000-999999 mature individuals	poor	estimated	2020
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	2014-2024
Rate of change over the past 10 years/3 generations (longer of the two periods)	1-9%	-	-	-
Rate of change over the future 10 years/3 generations (longer of the two periods)	1-9%	-	-	-
Rate of change over the past & future 10 years/3 generations (longer of the two periods)	1-9%	-	-	-
Generation length	2.9 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The species is described as fairly common (Stotz et al. 1996, Zimmer and Isler 2020), but the global population size has not been quantified directly. Based on density estimates of a congener (M. myotherinus: 40 mature individuals/km² in Peru; Santini et al. 2018) and precautionarily assuming that only around 10% of the range is occupied, the total population may number c. 800,000 mature individuals. To account for uncertainty, the population size is therefore placed in the band 500,000-999,999 mature individuals here.

Trend justification: The population trend has not been assessed directly. Forest loss over the past ten years has been low within the range (2%; Global Forest Watch 2020). The species is strictly forest-dependent and may be susceptible to fragmentation and edge effects (A. Lees in litt. 2011), and thus population declines may be exacerbated by habitat degradation and slightly higher than forest loss. The species is therefore tentatively suspected to undergo a slow decline at up to 10% over ten years.

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Bolivia	extant	native	yes
Brazil	extant	native	yes
Peru	extant	native	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Bolivia	Reserva Nacional Amazónica Manuripi Heath
Bolivia	Tahuamanu
Bolivia	Yungas Inferiores de Madidi
Brazil	Alto Juruá
Brazil	Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor
Brazil	Tabocais
Peru	Bahuaja-Sonene
Peru	Cordillera Vilcabamba
Peru	Los Amigos
Peru	Manu
Peru	Reserva Amazónica
Peru	Tambopata

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	major	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Swamp	major	resident
Altitude	0 - 1450 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Threat (level 1)	Threat (level 2)	Impact and Stresses
Biological resource use	Logging & wood harvesting - Unintentional effects: (subsistence/small scale) [harvest]	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Causing/Could cause fluctuations		Low Impact: 5
		Stresses Ecosystem degradation, Ecosystem conversion

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: White-lined Antbird Myrmoborus lophotes. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/white-lined-antbird-myrmoborus-lophotes 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.