What endangered species have you seen?

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birdsandbats

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I was wondering how many people here have seen endangered/critically endangered species in the wild. I have personally seen one: the Whooping Crane.
 
I have seen two northern fin whales, a gopher tortoise, many Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles, a loggerhead sea turtle, a green sea turtle, and a hawksbill sea turtle in the wild. These are the only species I’ve seen wild which fit into the IUCN Threatened category (Vulnerable, Endangered, or Critically Endangered). As you can see, I have good luck with sea turtles.
 
Interesting thread idea! let me check the IUCN red list website & see if I can come up with a list...
Vulnerable
Basking Shark Cetorhinus maximus
Common Pochard Aythya ferina
Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus
Lion Panthera leo
Leopard Panthera pardus
Cheetah Acinonyx jubatus
African Bush Elephant Loxodonta africana
Giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis
Hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius
Southern Ground Hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri
Endangered
nothing yet I don't think!
Critically Endangered
White-backed Vulture Gyps africanus
European Eel Anguilla anguilla
 
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Oh yeah, I forgot that I have also seen a Horned Grebe and some Common Carp, both of which are Vulnerable.
 
birdsandbats said:
Oh yeah, I forgot that I have also seen a Horned Grebe and some Common Carp, both of which are Vulnerable.
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I've seen common carp, but wasn't including it as its an introduced population outside it's native range, which is not included in the IUCN assessment.
 
These are the threatened species I have managed to see in the wild so far:

Critically Endangered
European eel Anguilla anguilla

Endangered
See note below

Vulnerable
Ocean sunfish Mola mola
American crocodile Crocodylus acutus
European turtle dove Streptopelia turtur
Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica
Slavonian grebe Podiceps auritus
Long-tailed duck Clangula hyemalis
Velvet scoter Melanitta fusca
Common pochard Aythya ferina
Central American squirrel monkey Saimiri oerstedii (although the species is Vulnerable, I saw the grey-crowned subspecies Saimiri oerstedii citrinellus, which are listed as Endangered)

I have also seen two other Vulnerable species, the water deer Hydropotes inermis and common carp Cyprinus carpio, both outside their native ranges.
 
Critically Endangered
Hawksbill Turtle
Regent Honeyeater
White-backed Vulture
Ruppell's Vulture
White-headed Vulture
Swift Parrot
Helmeted Hornbill
Christmas Island Frigatebird
Eastern (Mountain) Gorilla

Endangered
Napoleon Wrasse
Green Turtle
Steppe Eagle
Lappet-faced Vulture
Grey Crowned Crane
Eastern Bristlebird
Amani Sunbird
Abbott's Booby
African Grey Parrot
NZ Kaka
Australian Sea Lion
African Wild Dog
Ugandan Red Colobus
Proboscis Monkey
Mueller's Gibbon (or Nth Bornean Gibbon)
Chimpanzee

Vulnerable
Loggerhead Turtle
Shoebill
Sthn Ground Hornbill
Greater Green Leafbird
Christmas Island Boobook
Secretarybird
Hooded Plover
Pesquet's Parrot
Greater Glider
Koala
Quokka
Pohnpei Flying Fox
Greyheaded Flying Fox
Bearded Pig
Hippopotamus
Giraffe
African Elephant
Cheetah
Leopard
Lion
L'Hoest's Guenon
Hose's Langur

There's probably more.

:p

Hix
 
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My list, though mammals only:

Critically endangered:
Black rhinoceros
Mongoose lemur
Indri
Diademed sifaka
Black-and-white ruffed lemur
Golden bamboo lemur
Greater bamboo lemur
Kipunji

Endangered
Grevy zebra
Common chimpanzee
Western woolly lemur
Verreaux's sifaka
Coquerel's sifaka
Milne-Edwards sifaka
Small-toothed sportive lemur
White-headed lemur
Ring-tailed lemur
Golden-brown mouse lemur
Sanje mangabey
Barbary macaque
Udzungwa red colobus
Zanzibar red colobus
Ugandan red colobus
Mountain nyala
Swayne's hartebeest
Rothschild's giraffe (though this one will be removed soon I guess...)
Ethiopian wolf
African wild dog
Ethiopian giant mole rat

Vulnerable
Mountain zebra
Eastern woolly lemur
Red-bellied lemur
Red-fronted lemur
Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
Bale mountains vervet
Masai giraffe
Southern giraffe
Soemmering's gazelle
Black-faced impala
Hippopotamus
Fossa
Broad-striped vontsira
Brown-tailed vontsira
Lion
European ground squirrel
Long-fingered bat
African elephant
 
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Here's mine! I might be missing some stuff, but I think this'll be most of it.

CR:
Bali myna
California condor
Hawksbill Turtle
Hooded vulture
White-backed vulture

EN:
Fin whale
Green turtle
Lappet-faced vulture
White-handed gibbon
Yellow-eyed penguin

VU:
African bush elephant
Asian black bear
Asian small-clawed otter
Atlantic puffin
Cape vulture
Cheetah
Common pochard
European turtle dove
Hippopotamus
Javan lutung
Javan rusa
Kea
Koala
Lion
Loggerhead turtle
Martial eagle
Milky stork
Sambar
Smooth-coated otter
Southern giraffe
Southern ground hornbill
Southern royal albatross
Weka
 
Mammals-wise:

CR:
Delacour's Langur - Trachypithecus delacouri

EN:
Geoffroy's Spider Monkey - Ateles geoffroyi
Ethiopian Giant Mole-rat - Tachyoryctes macrocephalus
Ethiopian Wolf - Canis simensis
African Wild Dog - Lycaon pictus
Swayne's Hartebeest - Alcelaphus (buselaphus) swaynei
Mountain Nyala - Tragelaphus buxtoni

VU:
African Bush Elephant - Loxodonta africana
Black-clawed Brush-furred Rat - Lophuromys melanonyx
Dominican Myotis - Myotis dominicensis
Lion - Panthera leo
Leopard - Panthera pardus
Common Hippopotamus - Hippopotamus amphibius
Giraffe - Giraffa camelopardalis
Chinese Water Deer - Hydropotes inermis
Soemmerring's Gazelle - Nanger soemmerringii

Would have to check the other groups - suspect a lot of birds would qualify.
 
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Herps and Fishes (and checking these was a lesson in how much work IUCN still has ahead - so many 'not evaluateds'):

CR:
Lesser Antillean Grove Snake - Alsophis antillensis
European Eel - Anguilla anguilla

EN:
Lesser Antillean Iguana - Iguana delicatissima

VU:
Ocean Sunfish - Mola mola
 
I really can't compete with those living in exotic places or traveling into the wild countries for find exciting species. But at least I can apport my small grain of sand, with those lesser-known species that are often forgoten by general public.

American Bumblebee Bombus pensylvanicus - VU
Cinquefoil Skipper Pyrgus cirsii - VU
Common Predatory Bush-cricket Saga pedo - VU
Pyrenean Short-winged Grasshopper Gomphoceridius brevipennis - VU
White-clawed Crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes - EN

For sure there are some more species, but these are just the ones that popped up in my mind. Checking in IUCN, I'm susprised that the butterflies Chazara prieuri and Euchloe bazae was downgraded to Least Concern - not sure if they should.
 
Swampy said:
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What are your thoughts on the chances of this species' continued survival?
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My bad, and thanks for pointing it out.

I was in Pohnpei in 1992. I have photos of the lorikeet, fruit bat and fantail and when I was going through the IUCN website it listed the starling I thought I had seen it, not realising it was a rarity.
Clearly, I did not see it. I wasn't even aware how rare it is. As for it's continued existence, I really can't say as it been 25 years since I was there and I don't know how the island has developed. If it is today still pretty much as it was back then, I think there would be a good chance of it surviving.

And I've removed it from the list.

:p

Hix
 
I can do this quite easily for birds (thanks to keeping my sightings in the HBW system and being able to filter by conservation status) so I'll start with that:

CR: (5)
Northern Bald Ibis
White-headed Vulture
Hooded Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Ruppell's Vulture

EN: (11)
Grey Crowned-Crane
African Penguin
Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
Eastern Curlew
Great Knot
Cape Vulture
Lappet-faced Vulture
Steppe Eagle
Long-billed Black-cockatoo
Short-billed Black-cockatoo
Rufous Scrub-bird

VU: (15)
Somali Ostrich
Southern Cassowary
Malleefowl
Long-tailed Duck
Velvet Scoter
Common Pochard
Black Crowned-crane
Lesser Adjutant
Dalmatian Pelican
Atlantic Puffin
Secretarybird
Martial Eagle
Greater Spotted Eagle
Southern Ground-hornbill
White-crowned Reed-warbler

I might come back and do mammals later but I'll have to do that manually going through my list.
 
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