IUCN SSC Bird Red List Authority
IUCN COMMISSION GROUP

IUCN SSC Bird Red List Authority

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Overview and description

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The BirdLife Partnership strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

The BirdLife Partnership strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

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Group leadership

Dr Ian BURFIELD
Red List Authority Coordinator
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More about the Red List Authority


The role of the group exists to assess the global Red List status of as many bird species as possible, focusing on updating the factsheets of currently and potentially threatened species; (2) support the development of national and regional Red Lists and Red List Indices for birds where resources allow, to build capacity and feed into global Red List assessments.

BirdLife’s Preventing Extinctions Programme expects to have had the following impacts by ...

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More about the Red List Authority


The role of the group exists to assess the global Red List status of as many bird species as possible, focusing on updating the factsheets of currently and potentially threatened species; (2) support the development of national and regional Red Lists and Red List Indices for birds where resources allow, to build capacity and feed into global Red List assessments.

BirdLife’s Preventing Extinctions Programme expects to have had the following impacts by 2030. 

  • Status of the world’s most threatened bird species improved through the work of BirdLife Species Guardians and other effective action 
  • Overall extinction risk across all bird species reduced
  • The global Red List for birds is regularly updated, improved and promoted, with knowledge gaps filled through targeted research and monitoring
  • Declines in common bird species prevented, halted or reversed.
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Red List Authority work

The BirdLife Partnership focuses on the conservation birds, their habitats and global diversity.

Understanding the threat to birds

Impacts statues of the world’s most threatened bird species improved through the work of BirdLife Species Guardians and other effective actions.

Birds on the IUCN Red List

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To inform conservation efforts, Bird Red List Authority assesses species for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Bird RLA Annual Report

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Straw-headed Bubul, Pycnonotus zeylanicus, Critically Endangered. Photo by Pixabay

Photo: Pixabay

Great Hornbill, Buceros bicornis, Vulnerable. Photo by Angadachappa

Photo: Angadachappa

Red-Headed Woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, Least Concern. Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy MacClaren

Photo: Andy Reago & Chrissy MacClaren

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