Globally Threatened Bird Forums

Americas

All assessments are carried out in accordance with the Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. The taxonomy follows the HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist.

Please submit your comments by 20 April 2025. The category of the following species in the Americas is being reassessed for the 2025 Red List update:

Fork-tailed Tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus furcatus)

Yungas Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias weedeni)

Urich’s Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias urichi)

Grey-capped Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias griseocapilla)

Ash-breasted Tit-tyrant (Anairetes alpinus)

Strange-tailed Tyrant (Alectrurus risora)

Black-and-white Monjita (Xolmis dominicanus)

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi)

Northern Nightingale-wren (Microcerculus philomela)

Cuban Solitaire (Myadestes elisabeth)

Rufous-brown Solitaire (Cichlopsis leucogenys)

Sao Francisco Sparrow (Arremon franciscanus)

Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)

Brewer’s Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)

Grey-headed Warbler (Basileuterus griseiceps)

Guaiquinima Whitestart (Myioborus cardonai)

Scarlet-breasted Dacnis (Dacnis berlepschi)

Golden-backed Mountain-tanager (Cnemathraupis aureodorsalis)

Black-and-gold Tanager (Bangsia melanochlamys)

Timeline for updates to bird assessments for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Red List Changes consultation – Phase 1

7 April 2025 – 20 April 2025

Topics are open for discussion on the Red List Changes Forum, with preliminary decisions on proposed status changes posted on 25 April 2025

Red List Changes consultation – Phase 2

25 April 2025 – 4 May 2025

Topics are open for discussion on the Red List Changes Forum, with final decisions on proposed status changes posted on 12 May 2025

Submission of assessments to IUCN

19 June 2025

All updated assessments are submitted to IUCN for review

Publication of assessments

October 2025

Updated assessments are published on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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