Supported Species Bird
| Species Name: | Black Shama |
| Scientific Name: | Copsychus cebuensis |
| Conservation Status (Year Published): |
Endangered (1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 & 2016) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22710009A94230408. Downloaded on 27 April 2017. |
| Estimated Wild Population: | Around 6,650, with an estimate of 670-3,300 mature individuals. Population trend is decreasing. |
| Distribution: | Endemic to the island of Cebu in the Philippines |
| Major Threats: | Habitat loss and destruction |
| Species Name: | Black-faced Spoonbill |
| Scientific Name: | Platalea minor |
| Conservation Status (Year Published): |
Endangered (2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015 & 2016) Critically Endangered (1994 & 1996) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22697568A93621394. Downloaded on 27 April 2017. |
| Estimated Wild Population: | Around 3,356 individuals, with mature individual estimated at 2,000. Population trend is stable. |
| Distribution: | Native in Hong Kong, China, and other parts of Asia ranging from Russia to Vietnam. Recorded breeding in North Korea, South Korea and Liaoning Province in China. |
| Major Threats: | Habitat loss from development and reclamation, pollution. |
| Species Name: | Blue-crowned Laughingthrush |
| Scientific Name: | Garrulax courtoisi |
| Conservation Status (Year Published): |
Critically Endangered (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2016) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22732350A95046424. Downloaded on 27 April 2017. |
| Estimated Wild Population: | Fewer than 250 mature individuals. Population trend is decreasing. |
| Distribution: | Endemic to China, occupying an extremely small, fragmentedknown breeding range in Jiangxi Province. |
| Major Threats: | Trapping for bird trade, habitat loss and destruction of nests. |
| Species Name: | Chinese Crested Tern |
| Scientific Name: | Thalasseus bernsteini |
| Conservation Status (Year Published): |
Critically Endangered (1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 & 2016) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22694585A93458780. Downloaded on 27 April 2017. |
| Estimated Wild Population: | Less than 100. |
| Distribution: | A poorly-known species recorded breeding recently in the Zhejiang and Fujian Provinces of China during breeding season and in Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines outside the breeding season. |
| Major Threats: | Egg collection and loss of coastal wetlands |
| Species Name: | Philippine Eagle |
| Scientific Name: | Pithecophaga jefferyi |
| Conservation Status (Year Published): |
Critically Endangered (1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015 & 2016) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22696012A93538566. Downloaded on 27 April 2017. |
| Estimated Wild Population: | Less than 500 mature individuals. Population trend is decreasing. |
| Distribution: | Endemic to the Philippines, mainly on Mindanao. |
| Major Threats: | Forest destruction and fragmentation through commercial timber extraction. |
| Species Name: | Spoon-billed Sandpiper |
| Scientific Name: | Calidris pygmaea |
| Conservation Status (Year Published): |
Critically Endangered (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 & 2016) Endangered (2004) Vulnerable (1994, 1996 & 2000) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22693452A93409155. Downloaded on 27 April 2017. |
| Estimated Wild Population: | Fewer than 600 individuals with breeding population estimated at 120-200 pairs. Population trend is decreasing. |
| Distribution: | Has a limited breeding range on the Chukotsk peninsula and southwards up to the isthmus of the Kamchatka peninsula, in north-eastern Russia, It migrates down the western Pacific coast through Russia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong (China), Taiwan and Vietnam, to its main wintering grounds in Bangladesh and Myanmar. Wintering birds have also been recorded from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, in the Fujian province of China, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore. |
| Major Threats: | Pollution and loss of tidal flats in migratory and wintering ranges. |
| Species Name: | Yellow Crested Cockatoo |
| Scientific Name: | Cacatua sulphurea |
| Conservation Status (Year Published): |
Critically Endangered (2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 & 2016) Endangered (1994 & 1996) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22684777A93045770. Downloaded on 27 April 2017. |
| Estimated Wild Population: | Fewer than 7,000 mature individuals. Population trend is decreasing. |
| Distribution: | Endemic in Timor-Leste and Indonesia. Being introduced and released in the early years to Singapore and Hong Kong. |
| Major Threats: | Unsustainable exploitation for internal and international trade. Habitat loss by large-scale logging and conversion of forest to agriculture. |