List of vulnerable birds



In December 2020, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 798 vulnerable avian species. Of all evaluated avian species, 7.3% are listed as vulnerable. No subpopulations of birds have been evaluated by the IUCN.

For a species to be assessed as vulnerable to extinction the best available evidence must meet quantitative criteria set by the IUCN designed to reflect "a high risk of extinction in the wild". Endangered and critically endangered species also meet the quantitative criteria of vulnerable species, and are listed separately. See: List of endangered birds, List of critically endangered birds. Vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered species are collectively referred to as threatened species by the IUCN.

Additionally, 53 avian species (0.48% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient, meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status. As these species typically have small distributions and/or populations, they are intrinsically likely to be threatened, according to the IUCN. While the category of data deficient indicates that no assessment of extinction risk has been made for the taxa, the IUCN notes that it may be appropriate to give them "the same degree of attention as threatened taxa, at least until their status can be assessed".

This is a complete list of vulnerable avian species evaluated by the IUCN. Where possible common names for taxa are given while links point to the scientific name used by the IUCN.

Mesites
• Brown mesite

• White-breasted mesite

• Subdesert mesite

Penguins
• Southern rockhopper penguin

• Macaroni penguin

• Snares penguin

• Humboldt penguin

Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes includes petrels and albatrosses. There are 30 species in the order Procellariiformes assessed as vulnerable.

Albatrosses
• Southern royal albatross

• Wandering albatross

• Short-tailed albatross

• Chatham albatross

• Campbell albatross

• Salvin's albatross

Procellariids
• Buller's shearwater

• Pink-footed shearwater

• White-chinned petrel

• Spectacled petrel

• Black petrel

• Trindade petrel

• Chatham petrel

• Collared petrel

• White-necked petrel

• Cook's petrel

• De Filippi's petrel

• Desertas petrel

• Juan Fernández petrel

• Gould's petrel

• Stejneger's petrel

• Pycroft's petrel

• Hawaiian petrel

• Heinroth's shearwater

• Yelkouan shearwater

Storm petrels

 * Matsudaira's storm petrel
 * Monteiro's storm petrel

Gruiformes
There are 26 species in the order Gruiformes assessed as vulnerable.

Trumpeters

 * Dark-winged trumpeter

Cranes
• Blue crane

• Sarus crane

• White-naped crane

• Black crowned crane

• Wattled crane

• Hooded crane

Rallids
• Talaud bush-hen

• Brown wood rail

• Snoring rail

• Inaccessible Island rail

• Swinhoe's rail

• Hawaiian coot

• Gough moorhen

• Weka

• Calayan rail

• Blue-faced rail

• Invisible rail

• Galapagos crake

• Rufous-faced crake

• Auckland rail

• Dot-winged crake

• Austral rail

• Madagascan rail

• Henderson crake

Bustards
• Southern black korhaan

• MacQueen's bustard

• Houbara bustard

• Great bustard

Parrots
There are 53 parrot species assessed as vulnerable.

Kakapo species

 * New Zealand kaka

Cockatoos

 * Salmon-crested cockatoo
 * Blue-eyed cockatoo

Psittacids
• Black-cheeked lovebird

• Red-necked amazon

• Yellow-shouldered amazon

• Red-tailed amazon

• Yellow-billed amazon

• Saint Vincent amazon

• Red-spectacled amazon

• Tucumán amazon

• Hispaniolan amazon

• Saint Lucia amazon

• Hyacinth macaw

• Military macaw

• Rufous-fronted parakeet

• Palm lorikeet

• Seychelles black parrot

• Chatham parakeet

• Antipodes parakeet

• Black-winged lory

• Horned parakeet

• Orange-fronted parakeet

• Yellow-faced parrotlet

• Golden parakeet

• Flores hanging-parrot

• Chattering lory

• Blue-headed macaw

• Mindoro racket-tail

• Blue-headed racket-tail

• Crimson shining parrot

• Hispaniolan parakeet

• Cuban parakeet

• Echo parakeet

• Pesquet's parrot

• Vulturine parrot

• White-breasted parakeet

• Flame-winged parakeet

• Ochre-marked parakeet

• Azuero parakeet

• Pearly parakeet

• Crimson-bellied parakeet

• Black-lored parrot

• Red-fronted parrotlet

• Scarlet-shouldered parrotlet

• Spot-winged parrotlet

• Golden-tailed parrotlet

• Biak lorikeet

• Blue lorikeet

• Stephen's lorikeet

Suliformes
• Ascension frigatebird

• Campbell shag

• New Zealand king shag

• Otago shag

• Auckland shag

• Flightless cormorant

• Socotra cormorant

• Bounty shag

Pigeons and doves
• Marquesan ground dove

• Tongan ground dove

• Nilgiri wood pigeon

• Yellow-eyed pigeon

• Yellow-legged pigeon

• Pale-capped pigeon

• Sri Lanka wood pigeon

• Vanuatu imperial pigeon

• Chestnut-bellied imperial pigeon

• Spotted imperial pigeon

• Micronesian imperial pigeon

• Grey imperial pigeon

• Mindanao bleeding-heart

• Partridge pigeon

• Grey-fronted quail-dove

• Western crowned pigeon

• Southern crowned pigeon

• Chatham pigeon

• New Britain bronzewing

• Pink pigeon

• Azuero dove

• Ochre-bellied dove

• White-naped pheasant-pigeon

• Ring-tailed pigeon

• Maranon pigeon

• Ruddy pigeon

• Mindanao brown dove

• Makatea fruit dove

• Red-naped fruit dove

• Carunculated fruit dove

• Henderson fruit dove

• Lilac-crowned fruit dove

• Lompobattang fruit-dove

• Flame-breasted fruit dove

• Banggai fruit dove

• Philippine collared dove

• European turtle dove

• Large green pigeon

• Flores green pigeon

• Pemba green pigeon

Pelecaniformes
• Agami heron

• Shoebill

• Chinese egret

• Slaty egret

• Southern bald ibis

• Japanese night heron

Galliformes
There are 46 species in the order Galliformes assessed as vulnerable.

Cracids
• Black curassow

• Bare-faced curassow

• Great curassow

• Rufous-headed chachalaca

• White-browed guan

• Chestnut-bellied guan

• White-crested guan

• Highland guan

Megapodes
• Moluccan megapode

• Malleefowl

• Sula megapode

• Biak scrubfowl

• Vanuatu megapode

• Nicobar megapode

• Tongan scrubfowl

• Tanimbar scrubfowl

Phasianids
• Congo peafowl

• Hainan partridge

• Chestnut-necklaced partridge

• Chestnut-breasted partridge

• Grey-breasted partridge

• Great argus

• Cheer pheasant

• Brown eared pheasant

• Swamp francolin

• Chinese monal

• Sclater's monal

• Bulwer's pheasant

• Crestless fireback

• Bornean crested fireback

• Bornean crestless fireback

• Malaysian crested fireback

• Black partridge

• Mountain peacock-pheasant

• Malayan peacock-pheasant

• Palawan peacock-pheasant

• Harwood's francolin

• Hose's partridge

• Reeves's pheasant

• Blyth's tragopan

• Cabot's tragopan

• Western tragopan

• Lesser prairie chicken

New World quails
• Ocellated quail

• Bearded wood partridge

• Black-fronted wood quail

• Tacarcuna wood quail

• Dark-backed wood quail

Guineafowl species

 * White-breasted guineafowl

Struthioniformes
• Southern brown kiwi

• Great spotted kiwi

• Southern cassowary

• Northern cassowary

• Choco tinamou

• Taczanowski's tinamou

• Lesser nothura

• Somali ostrich

• Dwarf tinamou

• Black tinamou

• Grey tinamou

Bucerotiformes
• Rufous-necked hornbill

• Black hornbill

• Palawan hornbill

• Great hornbill

• Rufous hornbill

• Southern rufous hornbill

• Rhinoceros hornbill

• Southern ground hornbill

• Brown-cheeked hornbill

• Yellow-casqued hornbill

• Malabar grey hornbill

• Sulawesi hornbill

• Wreathed hornbill

• Knobbed hornbill

• Narcondam hornbill

• Plain-pouched hornbill

Accipitriformes
Accipitriformes includes most of the diurnal birds of prey. There are more than 20 species in the order Accipitriformes assessed as vulnerable.

Accipitrids
• New Britain sparrowhawk

• Nicobar sparrowhawk

• Henst's goshawk

• Imitator goshawk

• Slaty-mantled goshawk

• New Britain goshawk

• Spanish imperial eagle

• Eastern imperial eagle

• Tawny eagle

• Galapagos hawk

• Socotra buzzard

• Rufous-tailed hawk

• White-necked hawk

• Beaudouin's snake eagle

• Greater spotted eagle

• Indian spotted eagle

• Steller's sea eagle

• Sanford's sea eagle

• Papuan eagle

• Black honey buzzard

• Wallace's hawk-eagle

• Andaman serpent eagle

• Mountain serpent eagle

Anatids
• Andaman teal

• Auckland teal

• Eaton's pintail

• Philippine duck

• Campbell teal

• Swan goose

• Lesser white-fronted goose

• Common pochard

• Red-breasted goose

• Nene

• Long-tailed duck

• Blue-winged goose

• West Indian whistling duck

• Marbled duck

• Velvet scoter

• Maccoa duck

• Steller's eider

• Salvadori's teal

• Chubut steamer duck

Owls
There are 27 owl species assessed as vulnerable.

Barn-owls
• Golden masked owl

• Minahassa masked owl

• Taliabu masked owl

• Red owl

Strigidae
• Philippine eagle-owl

• Snowy owl

• Albertine owlet

• Cloud-forest pygmy owl

• Fearful owl

• Cinnabar boobook

• Malaita boobook

• Mindoro hawk-owl

• Christmas boobook

• New Britain boobook

• Sulu hawk-owl

• Makira boobook

• Romblon hawk-owl

• Javan scops owl

• Biak scops owl

• Giant scops owl

• São Tomé scops owl

• Banggai scops-owl

• Negros scops owl

• Pemba scops owl

• White-fronted scops owl

• Rufous fishing owl

• Long-whiskered owlet

Charadriiformes
• Wrybill

• Saint Helena plover

• Madagascan plover

• Sharp-tailed sandpiper

• Chatham snipe

• Atlantic puffin

• Madagascan snipe

• Wood snipe

• Madagascan pratincole

• Audouin's gull

• Lava gull

• Relict gull

• Aleutian tern

• Red-legged kittiwake

• Black-legged kittiwake

• Indian skimmer

• Saunders's gull

• Amami woodcock

• River tern

• Fairy tern

• Craveri's murrelet

• Scripps's murrelet

• Japanese murrelet

• Hooded dotterel

• Sumba buttonquail

Falconiformes
• Seychelles kestrel

• Sooty falcon

• Taita falcon

• Grey falcon

• Plumbeous forest falcon

Coraciiformes
• Hombron's kingfisher

• Plain-backed kingfisher

• Short-legged ground roller

• Philippine dwarf kingfisher

• Black-capped kingfisher

• South Philippine dwarf-kingfisher

• Bismarck kingfisher

• Keel-billed motmot

• Scaly ground roller

• Kofiau paradise kingfisher

• Sombre kingfisher

• Pohnpei kingfisher

• Mewing kingfisher

• Winchell's kingfisher

• Long-tailed ground roller

Passerines
There are 337 passerine species assessed as vulnerable.

Monarch flycatchers
• Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio

• Kauaʻi ʻelepaio

• Celestial monarch

• Vanikoro monarch

• Tinian monarch

• Rarotonga monarch

• Kofiau monarch

• Seychelles paradise-flycatcher

Finches
• Saffron siskin

• Yellow-faced siskin

• Oʻahu ʻamakihi

• Kauaʻi ʻamakihi

• ʻAnianiau

• Ankober serin

• Syrian serin

• Salvadori's seedeater

• Laysan finch

• Woodpecker finch

• ʻIʻiwi

Pittas
• Black-faced pitta

• Blue-headed pitta

• Fairy pitta

• Schneider's pitta

• Azure-breasted pitta

• Graceful pitta

Formicariids
• Moustached antpitta

• Santa Marta antpitta

• Great antpitta

• Giant antpitta

• Brown-banded antpitta

• Rusty-tinged antpitta

• Bicolored antpitta

• Hooded antpitta

• Sucre antpitta

• Masked antpitta

White-eyes
• Fernando Po speirops

• Annobón white-eye

• Mount Cameroon speirops

• Seychelles white-eye

• Karthala white-eye

• Samoan white-eye

• Ranongga white-eye

• South Pare white-eye

Cotingas
• Black-headed berryeater

• Long-wattled umbrellabird

• Turquoise cotinga

• Bay-vented cotinga

• Scimitar-winged piha

• Three-wattled bellbird

• Grey-winged cotinga

• White-cheeked cotinga

Thrushes
• Bicknell's thrush

• Javan cochoa

• Sumatran cochoa

• Ashy thrush

• ‘Ōma’o

• Izu thrush

• Grey-sided thrush

• Somali thrush

• La Selle thrush

• Guadalcanal thrush

Corvids
• Florida scrub jay

• Island scrub jay

• White-necked crow

• White-throated jay

• Lidth's jay

• Pinyon jay

• Sichuan jay

• Sri Lanka blue magpie

Antbirds
• White-bearded antshrike

• Rondônia bushbird

• White-streaked antvireo

• Bicolored antvireo

• Plumbeous antvireo

• Yellow-breasted antwren

• Pectoral antwren

• Bahia antwren

• Grey-headed antbird

• Ash-breasted antbird

• Black-tailed antbird

• Salvadori's antwren

• Guianan streaked antwren

• Band-tailed antwren

• Allpahuayo antbird

• Bare-eyed antbird

• Maranon antshrike

• Lined antshrike

• Speckled antshrike

Icterids
• Forbes's blackbird

• Rusty blackbird

• Red-bellied grackle

• Martinique oriole

• Pampas meadowlark

• Bauda oropendola

New World warblers
• Santa Marta warbler

• Pirre warbler

• Altamira yellowthroat

• Black-polled yellowthroat

• Barbuda warbler

• White-winged warbler

Ovenbirds
• Pink-legged graveteiro

• Puna thistletail

• Pernambuco foliage-gleaner

• Santa Marta foliage-gleaner

• Ash-browed spinetail

• Marcapata spinetail

• Campo miner

• Henna-hooded foliage-gleaner

• White-throated barbtail

• Great spinetail

• Apurímac spinetail

• Rusty-headed spinetail

• Bahia spinetail

• Rufous-necked foliage-gleaner

• Russet-mantled softtail

• Orinoco softtail

• Striated softtail

Sylviids
• Tahiti reed warbler

• Aquatic warbler

• Nauru reed warbler

• Rimatara reed warbler

• Henderson reed warbler

• Manchurian reed warbler

• São Tomé shorttail

• Winifred's warbler

• Appert's tetraka

• Knysna warbler

• Bristled grassbird

• Papyrus yellow warbler

• Styan's grasshopper warbler

• New Britain thicketbird

• Fly River grassbird

• Yellow-eared parrot

• Kolombangara leaf warbler

• Hainan leaf warbler

• Ijima's leaf warbler

• Black-headed parrotbill

• Broad-tailed grassbird

• Yemen warbler

Emberizids
• Woodpecker finch

• Large tree finch

• Black-masked finch

• Yellow bunting

• Grey-winged Inca finch

• Inaccessible Island finch

• Nightingale Island finch

• Tanager finch

• Great-billed seed finch

• Cocos finch

• Cinereous warbling finch

• Yellow-green finch

• Chestnut seedeater

• Temminck's seedeater

• Buffy-fronted seedeater

• Black-and-tawny seedeater

Old World babblers
• Golden-fronted fulvetta

• Jerdon's babbler

• Sumatran laughingthrush

• White-speckled laughingthrush

• Ashy-headed laughingthrush

• Chestnut-eared laughingthrush

• Golden-winged laughingthrush

• Snowy-cheeked laughingthrush

• Emei Shan liocichla

• Black-breasted parrotbill

• Przevalski's parrotbill

• Grey-hooded parrotbill

• Marsh babbler

• Falcated wren-babbler

• Bornean wren-babbler

• Cordillera ground warbler

• Rusty-throated wren-babbler

• Naga wren-babbler

• Pale-throated wren-babbler

• Tawny-breasted wren-babbler

• Nonggang babbler

• Snowy-throated babbler

• Hinde's babbler

• Slender-billed babbler

Old World flycatchers
• White-headed robin-chat

• Sunda blue flycatcher

• Little slaty flycatcher

• Palawan flycatcher

• Kashmir flycatcher

• Blackthroat

• Nimba flycatcher

• Dapple-throat

• Chapin's flycatcher

• Ashy-breasted flycatcher

• Brown-chested jungle flycatcher

• White-browed jungle flycatcher

• White-throated bush chat

• White-browed bush chat

• Iringa akalat

• Swynnerton's robin

Ploceids
• Bannerman's weaver

• Kilombero weaver

• Yellow-legged weaver

• Finn's weaver

• Loango weaver

Bulbuls
• Grey-cheeked bulbul

• Yellow-bearded greenbul

• Mauritius bulbul

• Styan's bulbul

• Yellow-throated bulbul

• Hook-billed bulbul

Tanagers
• Yellow-green tanager

• Black-and-gold tanager

• Masked mountain tanager

• Green warbler finch

• Yellow-green bush tanager

• Tucumán mountain finch

• Pearly-breasted conebill

• Scarlet-breasted dacnis

• Turquoise dacnis

• White-capped tanager

• Straw-backed tanager

• Azure-rumped tanager

• Seven-coloured tanager

• Black-backed tanager

• Orange-throated tanager

Manakins
• Opal-crowned manakin

• Golden-crowned manakin

• Wied's tyrant-manakin

• Yellow-headed manakin

Swallows
• Blue swallow

• White-tailed swallow

• Peruvian martin

• Sinaloa martin

• Golden swallow

Tyrant flycatchers
• White-tailed shrike-tyrant

• Strange-tailed tyrant

• Cock-tailed tyrant

• Tawny-chested flycatcher

• Ochraceous attila

• Rufous twistwing

• Lemon-browed flycatcher

• Sharp-tailed grass tyrant

• Noronha elaenia

• Fork-tailed tody-tyrant

• Buff-breasted tody-tyrant

• Grey-breasted flycatcher

• Foothill elaenia

• Cocos flycatcher

• Western royal-flycatcher

• Atlantic royal flycatcher

• Slaty becard

• Yungas tyrannulet

• Russet-winged spadebill

• Black-and-white monjita

• Red-billed tyrannulet

• Mishana tyrannulet

Honeyeaters
• Painted honeyeater

• MacGregor's honeyeater

• Long-bearded melidectes

• Rotuma myzomela

• Stitchbird

• Dusky friarbird

Estrildid finches
• Green avadavat

• Shelley's crimsonwing

• Pink-billed parrotfinch

• Royal parrotfinch

• Green-faced parrotfinch

• Anambra waxbill

• Grey-banded mannikin

Other passerine species
• Pale-bellied myna

• Carpentarian grasswren

• White-throated grasswren

• Banded green sunbird

• Yellow-breasted pipit

• Ochre-breasted pipit

• Nilgiri pipit

• Sprague's pipit

• White-winged apalis

• Kabobo apalis

• Karamoja apalis

• Rarotonga starling

• Mountain starling

• Red-shouldered vanga

• Western chat-tanager

• Western wattled cuckooshrike

• Red lark

• Dupont's lark

• Philippine leafbird

• Rufous-throated dipper

• Abbott's starling

• Black-bibbed cicadabird

• White-winged cuckooshrike

• Mauritius cuckooshrike

• Hoffmanns's woodcreeper

• Black-belted flowerpecker

• Scarlet-collared flowerpecker

• Mayotte drongo

• Visayan broadbill

• Wattled broadbill

• Rudd's lark

• Brigida's woodcreeper

• Uniform woodcreeper

• Nava's wren

• Green-breasted bushshrike

• Hood mockingbird

• Rockefeller's sunbird

• Rufous-winged sunbird

• Giant sunbird

• Yellow-bellied sunbird-asity

• Red-tailed newtonia

• Bernier's vanga

• São Tomé oriole

• Red-lored whistler

• Goldie's bird-of-paradise

• Blue bird-of-paradise

• White-naped tit

• Abd al-Kuri sparrow

• White-necked rockfowl

• Grey-necked rockfowl

• Grey-crowned prinia

• Sierra Leone prinia

• Yellow-crested helmetshrike

• Grauer's broadbill

• Malaita fantail

• Manus fantail

• Tacarcuna tapaculo

• Beautiful nuthatch

• Corsican nuthatch

• White-faced starling

• Bendire's thrasher

• Cobb's wren

• Clarión wren

• San Andres vireo

• New Zealand rockwren

• Moustached woodcreeper

Caprimulgiformes
• Seychelles swiftlet

• Atiu swiftlet

• Purple-backed sunbeam

• Honduran emerald

• Santa Marta blossomcrown

• Dark-rumped swift

• Chimney swift

• Bonaparte's nightjar

• Nechisar nightjar

• Esmeraldas woodstar

• Little woodstar

• Black inca

• White-winged nightjar

• White-tailed hummingbird

• Satanic nightjar

• Solomons nightjar

• Pink-throated brilliant

• Dot-eared coquette

• Buffy helmetcrest

• Ecuadorian piedtail

• Schouteden's swift

• Mexican woodnymph

Cuckoos
• Coral-billed ground cuckoo

• Green-billed coucal

• Sunda coucal

• Short-toed coucal

• Cocos cuckoo

• Rufous-vented ground cuckoo

• Red-faced malkoha

Piciformes
• Black-girdled barbet

• White-mantled barbet

• Scarlet-banded barbet

• Kaempfer's woodpecker

• Atlantic black-breasted woodpecker

• Javan flameback

• Fernandina's flicker

• Andaman woodpecker

• Coppery-chested jacamar

• Pale-throated barbet

• Helmeted woodpecker

• Chaplin's barbet

• Southern sooty woodpecker

• Great slaty woodpecker

• Sulu pygmy woodpecker

• White-bellied piculet

• Yellow-ridged toucan (Ramphastos culminatus)

• White-throated toucan

• Channel-billed toucan

Other bird species
• Javan trogon

• Woolly-necked stork

• Lesser adjutant

• Andean flamingo

• Horned grebe

• Ruspoli's turaco

• Andean condor