Justification 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). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, 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.

Family/Sub-family Climacteridae

Species name author Gould, 1841

Taxonomic source(s) Christidis and Boles (1994), Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)

Population estimate

Population trend

Range estimate (breeding/resident)

Country endemic?

unknown

unset

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Yes

Range & population This species is endemic to south-east Australia, where it occurs in south-east Queensland and the east of New South Wales, and it is widespread but scattered in and east of the Great Dividing Range.

Ecology: The species inhabits forests and woodlands, along watercourses and in gullies, to c.1,500 m, and its densities are highest in wet sclerophyll forests in the gullies of foothills and dry sclerophyll forests on ridges in mountainous areas. It is almost entirely insectivorous, and lives in territorial pairs or groups of 3-4 adults that breed co-operatively and forage together loosely (Higgins et al. 2001).

Threats The species has disappeared from several peripheral habitats as a direct result of forest clearing and fragmentation, and has also declined in some wet forest habitats, probably as a result of logging and the progressive collapse of large old trees damaged by previous wildfires. However, in their preferred mature mixed species forest habitat there has been little change in abundance (R. Loyn in litt. 2003).

References Higgins et al. 2001.

Text account compilers Stuart Butchart (BirdLife International), Jonathan Ekstrom (BirdLife International), Sally Fisher (BirdLife International), Matt Harding (BirdLife International)

IUCN Red List evaluators Jeremy Bird (BirdLife International), Stuart Butchart (BirdLife International)

Recommended citation BirdLife International (2009) Species factsheet: Climacteris erythrops. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 10/2/2010

This information is based upon, and updates, the information published in BirdLife International (2000) Threatened birds of the world. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, BirdLife International (2004) Threatened birds of the world 2004 CD-ROM and BirdLife International (2008) Threatened birds of the world 2008 CD-ROM. These sources provide the information for species accounts for the birds on the IUCN Red List.

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