Justification This species is very poorly known with no recent records from the wintering grounds, and the only recent breeding records all originating from just one site. It has probably declined within its range and is suspected to have a moderately small population. Therefore, it is currently considered Near Threatened. Further information is necessary to improve this assessment of its status.

Family/Sub-family Muscicapidae

Species name author (David, 1871)

Taxonomic source(s) Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)

Identification

Population estimate

Population trend

Range estimate (breeding/resident)

Country endemic?

10,000-19,999

decreasing

-

No

Range & population Luscinia pectardens breeds in Sichuan, Yunnan and south-east Tibet, China, and is a non-breeding visitor to the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, India, northern Myanmar and Bangladesh. It appears to be very rare, with the only recent records on the breeding grounds from Wolong Biosphere Reserve in Sichuan, although it must be greatly under-recorded as much of its range is remote and seldom visited by ornithologists.

Ecology: It breeds in dense thickets and scrub in valley bottoms and along stream-sides, within montane forest, at 2,800-3,700 m. It forages on arthropods on the forest floor.

Threats It has presumably been affected by deforestation from logging and agricultural expansion on both the breeding and wintering grounds.

Conservation measures underway CMS Appendix II. All recent records originate from Wolong Nature Reserve, Sichuan.

Conservation measures proposed Survey within its known breeding range to determine habitat preference and density estimates. Use these to identify other potentially key areas, survey these and generate population estimates. Assess the impacts of forest loss within its breeding and inferred wintering ranges using satellite imagery and remote sensing. Protect key breeding strongholds. Collate available winter records and analyse patterns of distribution and habitat use to improve knowledge of its winter distribution.

References BirdLife International (2001). Collar (2005).

Further web sources of information

Fully detailed species accounts from the Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book (BirdLife International 2001), together with new information collated since the publication of the Red Data Book

Text account compilers Jeremy Bird (BirdLife International), Andrew O'Brien (BirdLife International)

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

Recommended citation BirdLife International (2009) Species factsheet: Luscinia pectardens. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 9/2/2010

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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