List of near threatened birds
- Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species
- Critically endangered (CR): 216 species
- Endangered (EN): 372 species
- Vulnerable (VU): 670 species
- Near threatened (NT): 967 species
- Least concern (LC): 8,767 species
- Data deficient (DD): 37 species
Avian species (IUCN, 2025-2)
- 11,198 extant species have been evaluated
- 11,161 of those are fully assessed[a]
- 9,734 are not threatened at present[b]
- 1,427 to 1,464 are threatened[c]
- 169 to 187 are extinct or extinct in the wild:
- 164 extinct (EX) species[d]
- 5 extinct in the wild (EW)
- 18 possibly extinct [CR(PE)]
- ↑ excludes data deficient evaluations.
- ↑ NT and LC.
- ↑ Threatened comprises CR, EN and VU. Upper estimate additionally includes DD.
- ↑ Chart omits extinct (EX) species
As of December 2020, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 1001 near threatened avian species.[1] Of all evaluated avian species, 9.1% are listed as near threatened. No subpopulations of birds have been evaluated by the IUCN.
This is a complete list of near threatened 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.
Rheas
Kiwis
Tinamous
Ducks, geese, swans, and screamers
Landfowl
Chachalacas, guans, and currassows
Pheasants and allies
- Congo peafowl
- Rock partridge
- Red-legged partridge
- Orange-necked partridge
- White-necklaced partridge
- Chestnut-breasted partridge
- Ferruginous partridge
- Japanese quail
- Salvadori's pheasant
- Swinhoe's pheasant
- Caucasian grouse
- Ocellated turkey
- Swamp francolin
- Mountain peacock-pheasant
- Harwood's spurfowl
- Long-billed partridge
- Chinese grouse
- Sabah partridge
- Greater prairie-chicken
New World quails
Megapodes
Nightjars
Frogmouths
Hummingbirds and swifts
Swifts
Hummingbirds
- White-tufted sunbeam
- Hooded visorbearer
- White-tailed sabrewing
- Little woodstar
- Tres Marias hummingbird
- Mexican sheartail
- White-tailed hummingbird
- Pirre hummingbird
- Hoary puffleg
- Marvellous spatuletail
- Dot-eared coquette
- Bee hummingbird
- Perijá metaltail
- Black-backed thornbill
- Chestnut-bellied hummingbird
- Rufous hummingbird
Turacos
Bustards
Cuckoos
- Biak coucal
- Whistling long-tailed cuckoo
- Bahama lizard-cuckoo
- Chestnut-vented coua
- Moustached hawk-cuckoo
- Black-bellied malkoha
- Chestnut-bellied malkoha
Doves and pigeons
- Madagascar blue pigeon
- Comoro blue pigeon
- Nicobar pigeon
- Whistling fruit dove
- Laurel pigeon
- Island bronze-naped pigeon
- Andaman wood pigeon
- Comoro olive pigeon
- Chestnut-bellied imperial pigeon
- Timor imperial pigeon
- Finsch's imperial pigeon
- Goliath imperial pigeon
- Mindoro imperial pigeon
- Enggano imperial pigeon
- Grey imperial pigeon
- Pink-bellied imperial pigeon
- Pink-headed imperial pigeon
- Yellowish imperial pigeon
- Luzon bleeding-heart
- Crested quail-dove
- Sclater's crowned pigeon
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- Tolima dove
- White-throated ground dove
- Plain pigeon
- White-crowned pigeon
- Maranon pigeon
- Grey-breasted brown dove
- Atoll fruit dove
- Lilac-crowned fruit dove
- Sula fruit dove
- Flame-breasted fruit dove
- Cream-breasted fruit dove
- Banggai fruit dove
- Pied cuckoo-dove
- Buru green pigeon
- Andaman green pigeon
- Whistling green pigeon
- Sumatran green pigeon
- Ashy-headed green pigeon
- Sumba green pigeon
- Black cuckoo-dove
- Galapagos dove
- Russet-crowned quail-dove
Cranes, rails, finfoots and trumpeters
Flufftails and forest rails
Rails, crakes, and coots
Cranes
Grebes
Flamingos
Shorebirds and gulls
Stone-curlews
Oystercatchers
Plovers, dotterels, and lapwings
Painted-snipes
Sandpipers and allies
- Red knot
- Stilt sandpiper
- Semipalmated sandpiper
- Least sandpiper
- Red-necked stint
- Ruddy turnstone
- Subantarctic snipe
- Snares snipe
- Imperial snipe
- Great snipe
- Latham’s snipe
- Noble snipe
- Fuegian snipe
- Asian dowitcher
- Long-billed dowitcher
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Black-tailed godwit
- Eurasian curlew
- Bristle-thighed curlew
- Amami woodcock
- Javan woodcock
Pratincoles and coursers
Gulls, terns, and allies
Auks and allies
Loons (Divers)
Penguins
Petrels, albatrosses, and shearwaters
- Sooty shearwater
- Jouanin's petrel
- Cape Verde shearwater
- Streaked shearwater
- Hornby's storm-petrel
- Markham's storm-petrel
- Swinhoe's storm petrel
- Peruvian diving-petrel
- Laysan albatross
- Black-footed albatross
- Light-mantled albatross
- Grey petrel
- Tahiti petrel
- Fea's petrel
- Mottled petrel
- Murphy's petrel
- Black-vented shearwater
- Buller's albatross
- Shy albatross
- White-capped albatross
Storks
Cormorants and allies
Pelicans, ibises, and herons
Hawks, eagles, kites, and vultures
- White-bellied goshawk
- Moluccan goshawk
- Imitator goshawk
- Madagascar sparrowhawk
- Grey-bellied hawk
- Cinereous vulture
- Gurney's eagle
- Mountain buzzard
- Hawaiian hawk
- Forest buzzard
- Rufous crab hawk
- Cuban black hawk
- White-necked hawk
- Solitary eagle
- Southern banded snake eagle
- Pallid harrier
- Indian spotted eagle
- Plumbeous hawk
- Letter-winged kite
- Chestnut-shouldered goshawk
- Bearded vulture
- Himalayan vulture
- Harpy eagle
- Lesser fish eagle
- Grey-headed fish eagle
- Rufous-bellied eagle
- Crested eagle
- Mountain hawk-eagle
- Mantled hawk
- Mountain serpent eagle
- Ornate hawk-eagle
- Crowned eagle
Owls
Barn owls
Owls
- Fearful owl
- Guadalcanal owl
- Barred eagle-owl
- Albertine owlet
- Chestnut-backed owlet
- Tamaulipas pygmy owl
- Togian boobook
- Ochre-bellied boobook
- Chocolate boobook
- Rote boobook
- Sumba boobook
- Mindanao hawk owl
- Nicobar scops owl
- Javan scops owl
- Biak scops owl
- Ryūkyū scops owl
- Giant scops owl
- Rinjani scops owl
- Banggai scops-owl
- Mindoro scops owl
- Negros scops owl
- Reddish scops owl
- Sula scops owl
- Chaco owl
- Spotted owl
Trogons
Hornbills and hoopoes
Kingfishers and allies
Rollers
Ground rollers
Kingfishers
- Black-headed kingfisher
- Rufous-collared kingfisher
- Green-backed kingfisher
- Scaly-breasted kingfisher
- Blyth's kingfisher
- Malay blue-banded kingfisher
- Southern silvery kingfisher
- Buru dwarf kingfisher
- Manus dwarf kingfisher
- Sulawesi dwarf kingfisher
- Northern silvery kingfisher
- Makira dwarf kingfisher
- Southern indigo-banded kingfisher
- Sula dwarf kingfisher
- Sangihe lilac kingfisher
- Brown-winged kingfisher
- Numfor paradise kingfisher
- Kofiau paradise kingfisher
- Biak paradise kingfisher
- White-mantled kingfisher
- Cinnamon-banded kingfisher
- Talaud kingfisher
- Vanuatu kingfisher
- Lazuli kingfisher
- Rusty-capped kingfisher
- Chattering kingfisher
Bee-eaters
Woodpeckers, toucans, and barbets
Jacamars
Puffbirds
New World barbets
- Black-girdled barbet
- Sira barbet
- Five-colored barbet
- Blue-chinned barbet (sometimes considered a subspecies of Versicolored barbet
Toucan barbets
Toucans
Asian barbets
African barbets
Honeyguides
Woodpeckers
- Knysna woodpecker
- Red-headed flameback
- Javan flameback
- Chequer-throated yellownape
- Amami woodpecker
- Arabian woodpecker
- Spot-throated flameback
- Olive-backed woodpecker
- Ground woodpecker
- Black-bodied woodpecker
- Red-cockaded woodpecker
- Buff-necked woodpecker
- Northern sooty woodpecker
- Speckle-chested piculet
- Varzea piculet
- Sumatran woodpecker
- Red-collared woodpecker
Falcons and caracaras
Parrots
Cockatoos
African & New World parrots
- Yellow-faced parrot
- Turquoise-fronted amazon
- Yellow-shouldered amazon
- Red-tailed amazon
- Northern festive amazon
- Blue-cheeked amazon
- Mealy amazon
- Festive amazon
- Northern mealy amazon
- Kawall's amazon
- Cuban amazon
- Golden-capped parakeet
- Olive-throated parakeet
- Mexican parrotlet
- Blue-winged macaw
- Red-masked parakeet
- Cordilleran parakeet
- Scarlet-fronted parakeet
- Iris lorikeet
- Bald parrot
- Saffron-headed parrot
- Blaze-winged parakeet
- Red-fronted parrotlet
- Spot-winged parrotlet
- Blue-bellied parrot
Old World parrots
- Fischer's lovebird
- Lilian's lovebird
- Jonquil parrot
- Comoro parrot
- Yellow-crowned parakeet
- Black-winged lory
- Blue-streaked lory
- Blue-eared lory
- Sangihe hanging parrot
- Yellow-throated hanging parrot
- White-naped lory
- Princess parrot
- Yellow-breasted racket-tail
- Montane racket-tail
- Mindanao racket-tail
- Masked shining parrot
- Crimson shining parrot
- Red-breasted parakeet
- Nicobar parakeet
- Lord Derby's parakeet
- Alexandrine parakeet
- Grey-headed parakeet
- Blossom-headed parakeet
- Simeulue parrot
- Blue-rumped parrot
- Blue-naped parrot
- Sula lorikeet
- Iris lorikeet
- Mindanao lorikeet
- Pohnpei lorikeet
- Leaf lorikeet
Passerines
Broadbills
African & green broadbills
Pittas
Ovenbirds
- Pink-legged graveteiro
- White-browed foliage-gleaner
- Berlepsch's canastero
- Maquis canastero
- Hudson's canastero
- Cipo canastero
- Line-fronted canastero
- Santa Marta foliage-gleaner
- Long-tailed cinclodes
- Canebrake groundcreeper
- Henna-hooded foliage-gleaner
- Russet-mantled softtail
- Araucaria tit-spinetail
- White-browed tit-spinetail
- Tawny tit-spinetail
- Straight-billed reedhaunter
- Beautiful treerunner
- Star-chested treerunner
- Chestnut-backed thornbird
- Grey-throated leaftosser
- Peruvian recurvebill
- Bay-capped wren-spinetail
- Río Orinoco spinetail
- Cabanis's spinetail
- Chestnut-throated spinetail
- Bahia spinetail
- Apurímac spinetail
- Rusty-headed spinetail
- Great spinetail
- Dusky spinetail
- Striated softtail
- Equatorial greytail
Antbirds
- Grey-headed antbird
- Rio de Janeiro antbird
- Bananal antbird
- Rondônia bushbird
- Ochre-rumped antbird
- Bicolored antvireo
- Spot-breasted antvireo
- Yellow-rumped antwren
- Parana antwren
- Sincorá antwren
- Narrow-billed antwren
- Creamy-bellied antwren
- Bahia antwren
- Magdalena antbird
- Salvadori's antwren
- Black-tailed antbird
- Wing-banded antbird
- Brown-bellied antwren
- Klages's antwren
- Unicolored antwren
- White-masked antbird
- Fringe-backed fire-eye
- White-breasted antbird
- Slender antbird
- Castelnau's antshrike
- Blackish-grey antshrike
- Cocha antshrike
- Spiny-faced antshrike
Antpittas
Gnateaters
Tapaculos
Tyrant flycatchers
- Black-billed flycatcher
- Ochraceous attila
- Chapada flycatcher
- Acre tody-tyrant
- Tumbes tyrant
- Yungas tyrannulet
- Bahia tyrannulet
- Rufous-lored tyrannulet
- São Paulo tyrannulet
- Minas Gerais tyrannulet
- Black-capped piprites
- Venezuelan bristle tyrant
- Bearded tachuri
- Dinelli's doradito
- Brujo flycatcher
- Chico's tyrannulet
Cotingas
Manakins
Royal flycatchers and allies
- Western royal-flycatcher (subspecies of tropical royal flycatcher in IOC taxonomy, as Onychorhynchus coronatus ssp. occidentalis)
Bowerbirds
Australasian wrens
Honeyeaters
Australasian warblers
New Zealand wattlebirds
Wattle-eyes and batises
Bushshrikes
Vangas and allies
Woodswallows, butcherbirds, and allies
Ioras
Cuckooshrikes
Whistlers and allies
Whitehead, yellowhead, pipipi
Vireos
Drongos
Fantails
Monarchs
- Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio
- Kauaʻi ʻelepaio
- Rennell shrikebill
- Black-throated shrikebill
- Short-crested monarch
- Versicolored monarch
- Solomons monarch
- Kolombangara monarch
- Yap monarch
- Manus monarch
- White-tailed monarch
- Mussau monarch
- Tinian monarch
- Samoan flycatcher
- Biak black flycatcher
- Makira flycatcher
- Biak monarch
- Kofiau monarch
- Japanese paradise flycatcher
- Bedford's paradise flycatcher
Jayshrike (monotypic)
Shrikes
Crows, jays, and allies
Birds-of-paradise
Australasian robins
Rail-babbler (monotypic)
Waxwings
Tits and chickadees
Larks
Bulbuls
- Brown-cheeked bulbul
- Finsch's bulbul
- Cameroon greenbul
- Green-tailed bristlebill
- Nicobar bulbul
- Buff-vented bulbul
- Streaked bulbul
- Zamboanga bulbul
- Grey-headed greenbul
- Grey-bellied bulbul
- Puff-backed bulbul
- Black-and-white bulbul
- Yellow-eared bulbul
- Grey-headed bulbul
- Scaly-breasted bulbul
- Spot-necked bulbul
Swallows and martins
Cettia bush warblers and allies
Leaf warblers
Reed warblers and allies
Grassbirds and allies
Tetrakas and allies
Cisticolas and allies
Sylviid babblers
Parrotbills and allies
White-eyes
- Bonin white-eye
- Flame-templed babbler
- Spot-breasted heleia
- Giant white-eye
- Long-billed white-eye
- Sanford's white-eye
- Javan white-eye
- Pearl-bellied white-eye
- Plain white-eye
- Ambon white-eye
- Tagula white-eye
- Biak white-eye
- Christmas white-eye
- Olive-colored white-eye
- Saipan white-eye
- Togian white-eye
- Slender-billed white-eye
- Golden-bellied white-eye
- Vella Lavella white-eye
Old World babblers
- Fluffy-backed tit-babbler
- Rufous-throated wren-babbler
- Golden-crowned babbler
- White-breasted babbler
- Sikkim wedge-billed babbler
- Palawan striped babbler
- Panay striped babbler
- White-necked babbler
- Chestnut-rumped babbler
- Black-throated babbler
- Mindanao pygmy babbler
- Visayan pygmy babbler
- Cachar wedge-billed babbler
- Luzon striped babbler
Ground babblers
- Indian grassbird
- Rufous-winged illadopsis
- Striped wren-babbler
- Rufous-vented grass-babbler
- Black-browed babbler
- Sooty-capped babbler
- Grey-breasted babbler
- Rufous-crowned babbler
- Melodious babbler
- Short-tailed scimitar babbler
- Sumatran babbler
- Short-tailed babbler
- White-chested babbler
- Black-throated wren-babbler
- Large wren-babbler
Laughingthrushes and allies
Fairy-bluebirds
Wrens
Gnatcatchers
Nuthatches
Mockingbirds and thrashers
Starlings
Thrushes
- Rusty-bellied shortwing
- Sulawesi mountain-thrush
- Cuban solitaire
- Brown-winged whistling thrush
- Malayan whistling thrush
- Tristan thrush
- Unicoloured thrush
- Redwing
- Forest thrush
- Crossley's ground thrush
- Chestnut-backed thrush
- Buru thrush
- Red-backed thrush
- Everett's thrush
- Sri Lanka thrush
- Seram thrush
- Enggano thrush
- Fawn-breasted thrush
- White-bellied thrush
- Red-and-black thrush
- Oberländer's ground thrush
- Orange-sided thrush
- Slaty-backed thrush
- Spot-winged thrush
- Black-backed thrush
Old World flycatchers
- Palawan blue flycatcher
- Malaysian blue flycatcher
- Chestnut-naped forktail
- Ryukyu robin
- Dull-blue flycatcher
- Furtive flycatcher
- Rufous-chested flycatcher
- Damar flycatcher
- Rufous-throated flycatcher
- Black-banded flycatcher
- Firethroat
- Amber Mountain rock thrush
- Sumba brown flycatcher
- Maroon-breasted philentoma
- Przevalski's redstart
- Luzon water-tyrant
- Streak-breasted jungle flycatcher
- Henna-tailed jungle flycatcher
- Slaty-backed jungle flycatcher
- Grey-chested jungle flycatcher
- Canary Islands stonechat
- White-bellied bush chat
- East coast akalat
- Rufous-tailed shama
Leafbirds
Flowerpeckers
Sunbirds
Weavers
Waxbills, munias, and allies
Wagtails and pipits
Finches and euphonias
Buntings
New World sparrows
Hispaniolan palm-tanagers
Oropendolas, New World orioles, and blackbirds
New World warblers
Cardinals and allies
Tanagers and allies
- Blue-and-gold tanager
- Woodpecker finch
- Coal-crested finch
- Multicolored tanager
- Golden-backed mountain tanager
- Bicolored conebill
- Turquoise dacnis
- Black-legged dacnis
- Chestnut-bellied flowerpiercer
- Carriker's mountain-tanager
- Purplish-mantled tanager
- Parodi's hemispingus
- Grey-capped hemispingus
- Cuban bullfinch
- Grand Cayman bullfinch
- Plain-tailed warbling finch
- Shrike-like tanager
- Brown tanager
- Giant conebill
- Slaty-backed hemispingus
- Rufous-breasted warbling finch
- Blue finch
- Rufous-rumped seedeater
- Ibera seedeater
- Black-bellied seedeater
- Dark-throated seedeater
- Green-capped tanager
- Slender-billed finch
See also
References
- ↑ "IUCN Red List version 2019-3". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 8 September 2016.