Colombian mountain grackle

Colombian mountain grackle
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Icteridae
Genus:	Macroagelaius
Species:	M. subalaris
Binomial name
	Macroagelaius subalaris; (Boissonneau, 1840)

The Colombian mountain grackle (Macroagelaius subalaris), is a species of bird in the family Icteridae.

Distribution and habitat

It is endemic to Colombia where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Conservation

It is threatened by habitat loss and declining in numbers. It was uplisted from Near Threatened to Critically Endangered status in 2000, due to fears of a collapse of the presumably tiny population. As the species, while still severely declining, has turned out to be more widespread than believed, it was downlisted to Endangered in the 2007 IUCN Red List.^[2]

References

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^ See BirdLife International (2007a,b).

Sources

BirdLife International (2007a): 2006-2007 Red List status changes, Retrieved 26 August 2007
BirdLife International (2007b): Mountain Grackle - BirdLife Species Factsheet. Retrieved 28 August 2007

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[2] See BirdLife International (2007a,b).

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