Thought a good idea to share with you fyi, changes that
happened in the new 2015 IUCN Red Listing of birds announced on 29
th
October. These can be found at
http://www.birdlife.org/globally-threatened-bird-forums/2015/10/global-iucn-red-list-for-birds-2015-changes/ In the attached file, I’ve filtered species relevant to Africa.
Speaking non-technically, normally species are listed into categories according
to their level of threat (see what each of the categories mean at
http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/info/spcredcat)
. BirdLife is the authority that assists IUCN with this listing for birds,
something that is reviewed periodically based on new information. The latest
update was released on 29
th October and you can see in attached the
species that changed categories of threat from 2014 to 2015.