Review of Madagascar’s wildfowl 9
©Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Wildfowl
(2013) 63: 5–23
Table 2.
Published status of Madagascar’s endemic wildfowl (with total population estimate, if recorded) from 1978 to 2013. IUCN
categories: NT = near threatened; VU = vulnerable; EN = endangered; CR = critically endangered.
Species
King Kear & Collar
Green Callaghan Rose & Collar
Scott
BirdLife Delany &
BirdLife
1978
–
79 Williams & Stuart
& Green
Scott
et al
.
& Rose
2000 Scott 2002 2013 (mature
1978
1985
1992
1
1993
1994 1994 1996
individuals)
Madagascar
–
–
–
–/EN
< 10,000 – < 10,000
– 2,500–5,000
White-backed
Duck
Madagascar
VU VU VU VU/CR
> 20
EN
500–1,000
EN
1,500–2,500
EN
Teal
500–1,000
1,000–1,700
Meller’s Duck
–
*
**
–/VU EN
–
NT
2,000–5,000
EN
2,000–5,000
EN
< 10,000 2,000–5,000
2,000–5,000
1,300–3,300
Madagascar
VU VU EN EN/CR
0–10
CR
0–10
CR
0–10
CR
Pochard
< 50
20–49
1
IUCN category listed by Green (1992), followed by a provisional new category recommended by the author.
*Kear & Williams (1978) list Meller’s Duck but do not give a status category.
** Collar & Stuart (1985) list Meller’s Duck as a candidate for future categorisation.
