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Justification of Red List category
This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km² combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size may be moderately small to large, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Population justification
The population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as rare, but locally common (Short and Horne 2020). Based on the frequency of records within the range (per eBird 2022), the population is here tentatively suspected to number 10,000-19,999 mature individuals. This value however urgently requires confirmation, as the population is unlikely to be very large (per E. Botero-Delgadillo in litt. 2023).

Trend justification
There are no data on the population trends, but declines are suspected on the basis of the species' preference for forests and ongoing deforestation in the region.
Over the past three generations (10.9 years), 5% of tree cover (with a canopy cover of at least 30%) has been lost; since 2017 this has been accelerating to a rate equivalent to 7% over three generations (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). Given the species' tolerance of fragmented and secondary forests as well as plantations, tree cover loss is unlikely to be driving rapid population declines. Tentatively, population declines are here placed in the band 1-9% over three generations.

Capito hypoleucus is restricted to the north Central Andes and west slope of the East Andes, Colombia. The nominate subspecies, which is now thought to be extinct, was known from the north tip of the Central Andes and the Serranía de San Lucas, Bolívar and north Antioquia (Short and Horne 2020). Subspecies carrikeri (which may likewise be extinct) and extinctus occur successively further south along the east slope of the Central Andes from Antioquia to Tolima, and on the west slope of the East Andes in Boyacá and Cundinamarca (Stiles et al. 1999, Short and Horne 2020).

The species inhabits lower montane humid forest and gallery forest. It uses primary, secondary and heavily disturbed forest, and occasionally areas with a mosaic of forest, coffee plantations and pasture, but appears to prefer primary forest above 1,000 m (Laverde-R et al. 2005, Y. G. Molina-Martínez in litt. 2012, F. G. Stiles in litt. 2012). It shows a considerable tolerance of fragmented and converted habitats; it has been observed crossing pastures and cropland for distances of 100 m or more, though it may be reluctant to do so (Y. G. Molina-Martínez in litt. 2012, F. G. Stiles in litt. 2012). Its occurrence in human-modified landscapes is thought to be dependent on the presence of primary or minimally-disturbed forest (Y. G. Molina-Martínez in litt. 2012).
The species' diet consists of seeds, fruit and insects (Stiles et al. 1999, Short and Horne 2020). Evidence of breeding has been collected from late April to early September (Stiles et al. 1999, Short and Horne 2020).

Forests within its range are cleared and used for livestock-farming, arable cultivation, narcotics plantations, infrastructure development, oil extraction and mining (Forero 1989, Cuervo and Salaman 1999, A. Cuervo in litt. 1999, L. Dávalos in litt. 1999, Dinerstein et al. 1995, Donegan and Salaman 1999, P. G. W. Salaman in litt. 1999, Stiles et al. 1999). The northern tip of the Central Andes has been progressively settled and deforested since the 19th century, although some extensive forests survive (Forero 1989, Wege and Long 1995). The middle Magdalena valley was rapidly opened up, colonised, logged and farmed during the 1960s and 1970s, although forest regeneration has begun following land abandonment in some areas (Stiles et al. 1999). The Serranía de San Lucas was covered by primary forest until 1996, when a gold rush began, and most of the eastern slopes have since been settled, logged and converted to agriculture and coca production, with streams polluted by mining and cocaine production (Cuervo and Salaman 1999, A. Cuervo in litt. 1999, L. Dávalos in litt. 1999, Donegan and Salaman 1999, P. G. W. Salaman in litt. 1999). Forest loss within its range is currently occurring at a rate of up to 7% over c.11 years (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein), though in the past this rate may have been higher (per T. Donegan in litt. 2011).

Conservation Actions Underway
No targeted actions are known.

Conservation Actions Proposed
Survey forests across its known range and potentially occupied sites to acquire an improved population estimate. Research the species' ecology and behaviour. Monitor the population trend. Monitor rates of forest loss within the species' range.
Increase the area of primary forest within the range that is protected. Encourage the reforestation of abandoned pastures and other formerly forested areas.

19 cm. Chunky, short-necked bird with heavy yellowish-white bill with bluish tip. Scarlet forehead. Black-and-white hindcrown and mantle. Blue-black sides of head and rest of upperparts. White throat and upper breast with diffused buffy breast-band. Yellowish-white underparts, yellowish on flanks. Similar spp. Scarlet-crowned Barbet C. aurovirens lacks pale bill, scarlet forecrown, and white rear crown and mantle. Voice Deep croak repeated frequently for long durations. Hints Often heard calling from canopy and accompanies mixed-species foraging flocks.

Text account compilers
Hermes, C.

Contributors
Benstead, P., Botero-Delgadillo, E., Cortés, O., Cuervo, A., Donegan, T., Dávalos, L., Isherwood, I., Molina-Martínez, Y.G., Salaman, P.G.W., Sharpe, C.J., Stiles, F.G., Stuart, T., Symes, A. & Taylor, J.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: White-mantled Barbet Capito hypoleucus. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/white-mantled-barbet-capito-hypoleucus on 22/12/2024.
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 22/12/2024.