The world's most endangered waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans)
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species evaluates the conservation status of plant and animal species. The list is based on scientific assessment of an organism's status by experts.
Conservation status of the world's waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans)
Species comprising the chart above include:
| Family | Scientific name | Common name(s) | Red List status | Population trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANATIDAE | Alopochen kervazoi | Reunion Shelduck, Réunion Shelduck | EX | |
| ANATIDAE | Alopochen mauritianus | Mauritian Shelduck, Mauritius Shelduck | EX | |
| ANATIDAE | Anas marecula | Amsterdam Duck, Amsterdam Island Duck | EX | |
| ANATIDAE | Anas theodori | Mauritian Duck, Mauritius Duck | EX | |
| ANATIDAE | Camptorhynchus labradorius | Labrador Duck | EX | |
| ANATIDAE | Mergus australis | Auckland Island Merganser, Auckland Islands Merganser | EX | |
| ANATIDAE | Anas laysanensis | Laysan Duck, Laysan Teal | CR | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya baeri | Baer's Pochard | CR | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya innotata | Madagascar Pochard | CR | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Mergus octosetaceus | Brazilian Merganser | CR | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Rhodonessa caryophyllacea | Pink-headed Duck | CR | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Tadorna cristata | Crested Shelduck | CR | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Anas bernieri | Bernier's Teal, Madagascar Teal | EN | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas chlorotis | Brown Teal | EN | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas melleri | Meller's Duck | EN | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas nesiotis | Campbell Islands Teal | EN | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas wyvilliana | Hawaiian Duck | EN | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Branta ruficollis | Red-breasted Goose | EN | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Cairina scutulata | White-winged Duck, White-winged Wood Duck | EN | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos | Blue Duck | EN | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Melanitta fusca | Velvet Scoter | EN | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Mergus squamatus | Chinese Merganser, Scaly-sided Merganser | EN | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Oxyura leucocephala | White-headed Duck | EN | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas aucklandica | Auckland Islands Teal, Brown Teal | VU | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas eatoni | Eaton's Pintail, Kerguelen Pintail | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas luzonica | Philippine Duck | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anser cygnoides | Swan Goose | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anser erythropus | Lesser White-fronted Goose | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Branta sandvicensis | Hawaiian Goose, Nene | VU | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Clangula hyemalis | Long-tailed Duck | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Cyanochen cyanoptera | Blue-winged Goose | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Dendrocygna arborea | Black-billed Wood-duck, Cuban Tree-duck, West Indian Tree-duck, West Indian Whistling-duck, West Indian Whistling Duck, West Indian Whistling-Duck | VU | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Marmaronetta angustirostris | Marbled Duck, Marbled Teal | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Polysticta stelleri | Steller's Eider | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Salvadorina waigiuensis | Salvadori's Teal | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Tachyeres leucocephalus | Chubut Steamerduck, Chubut Steamer Duck, White-headed Steamerduck, White-headed Steamer-Duck | VU | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas falcata | Falcated Duck, Falcated Teal | NT | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya nyroca | Ferruginous Duck, Ferruginous Pochard, White-eyed Pochard | NT | decreasing |
| ANHIMIDAE | Chauna chavaria | Northern Screamer | NT | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Chen canagica | Emperor Goose | NT | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Melanitta americana | American Scoter, Black Scoter | NT | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Neochen jubata | Orinoco Goose | NT | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Oxyura australis | Blue-billed Duck | NT | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Oxyura maccoa | Maccoa Duck | NT | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Speculanas specularis | Bronze-winged Duck, Spectacled Duck | NT | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Aix galericulata | Mandarin, Mandarin Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aix sponsa | Wood Duck | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Alopochen aegyptiaca | Egyptian Goose | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Amazonetta brasiliensis | Brazilian Teal | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas acuta | Northern Pintail, Pintail | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas americana | American Wigeon | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas andium | Andean Teal | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas bahamensis | White-cheeked Pintail | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas capensis | Cape Teal | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas castanea | Chestnut Teal | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas clypeata | Northern Shoveler, Shoveler | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas crecca | Common Teal, Eurasian Teal, Green-winged Teal, Teal | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Anas cyanoptera | Cinnamon Teal | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas discors | Blue-winged Teal | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas erythrorhyncha | Red-billed Duck, Red-billed Teal | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas flavirostris | Yellow-billed Teal | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas formosa | Baikal Teal | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas fulvigula | Mottled Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas georgica | Yellow-billed Pintail | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas gibberifrons | Sunda Teal | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas gracilis | Grey Teal | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas hottentota | Hottentot Teal | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas penelope | Eurasian Wigeon, European Wigeon, Wigeon | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas platalea | Red Shoveler | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas platyrhynchos | Common Mallard, Mallard, Northern Mallard | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas poecilorhyncha | Indian Spot-billed Duck, Western Spot-billed Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas puna | Puna Teal | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas querquedula | Garganey | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas rhynchotis | Australasian Shoveler, Australian Shoveler | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas rubripes | American Black Duck, Black Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas sibilatrix | Chiloe Wigeon | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas smithii | Cape Shoveler | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas sparsa | African Black Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anas strepera | Gadwall | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Anas superciliosa | Grey Duck, Pacific Black Duck | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Anas undulata | Yellow-billed Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas versicolor | Silver Teal | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Anas zonorhyncha | Eastern Spot-billed Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANHIMIDAE | Anhima cornuta | Horned Screamer | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anser albifrons | Greater White-fronted Goose, White-fronted Goose | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Anser anser | Greylag Goose | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anser brachyrhynchus | Pink-footed Goose | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anser fabalis | Bean Goose | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Anser indicus | Bar-headed Goose | LC | decreasing |
| ANSERANATIDAE | Anseranas semipalmata | Magpie Goose | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya affinis | Lesser Scaup | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya americana | Redhead | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya australis | Hardhead, White-eyed Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya collaris | Ring-necked Duck | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya ferina | Common Pochard, Northern Pochard, Pochard | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya fuligula | Tufted Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya marila | Greater Scaup, Scaup | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya novaeseelandiae | New Zealand Scaup | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Aythya valisineria | Canvasback | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Biziura lobata | Musk Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Branta bernicla | Brant, Brant Goose, Brent Goose | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Branta canadensis | Canada Goose | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Branta hutchinsii | Cackling Goose | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Branta leucopsis | Barnacle Goose | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Bucephala albeola | Bufflehead | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Bucephala clangula | Common Goldeneye, Goldeneye | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Bucephala islandica | Barrow's Goldeneye | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Cairina moschata | Muscovy Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Callonetta leucophrys | Ringed Teal | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Cereopsis novaehollandiae | Cape Barren Goose | LC | stable |
| ANHIMIDAE | Chauna torquata | Southern Screamer | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Chen caerulescens | Snow Goose | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Chen rossii | Ross's Goose | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Chenonetta jubata | Australian Wood Duck, Maned Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Chloephaga hybrida | Kelp Goose | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Chloephaga melanoptera | Andean Goose | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Chloephaga picta | Upland Goose | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Chloephaga poliocephala | Ashy-headed Goose | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Chloephaga rubidiceps | Ruddy-headed Goose | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Coscoroba coscoroba | Coscoroba Swan | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Cygnus atratus | Black Swan | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Cygnus buccinator | Trumpeter Swan | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Cygnus columbianus | Bewick's Swan, Tundra Swan | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Cygnus cygnus | Whooper Swan | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Cygnus melancoryphus | Black-necked Swan | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Cygnus olor | Mute Swan | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Dendrocygna arcuata | Wandering Whistling-duck, Wandering Whistling Duck, Wandering Whistling-Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Dendrocygna autumnalis | Black-bellied Whistling-duck, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Dendrocygna bicolor | Fulvous Duck, Fulvous Whistling-duck, Fulvous Whistling Duck, Fulvous Whistling-Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Dendrocygna eytoni | Grass Whistling Duck, Plumed Whistling-duck, Plumed Whistling Duck, Plumed Whistling-Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Dendrocygna guttata | Spotted Whistling-duck, Spotted Whistling Duck, Spotted Whistling-Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Dendrocygna javanica | Lesser Whistling-duck, Lesser Whistling Duck, Lesser Whistling-Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Dendrocygna viduata | White-faced Duck, White-faced Whistling-duck, White-faced Whistling Duck, White-faced Whistling-Duck | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Heteronetta atricapilla | Black-headed Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Histrionicus histrionicus | Harlequin, Harlequin Duck | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Lophodytes cucullatus | Hooded Merganser | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Lophonetta specularioides | Crested Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Malacorhynchus membranaceus | Pink-eared Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Melanitta deglandi | American White-winged Scoter, White-winged Scoter | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Melanitta nigra | Black Scoter, Common Scoter | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Melanitta perspicillata | Surf Scoter | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Melanitta stejnegeri | Asian White-winged Scoter, Stejneger's Scoter | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Merganetta armata | Torrent Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Mergellus albellus | Smew | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Mergus merganser | Common Merganser, Goosander | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Mergus serrator | Red-breasted Merganser | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Netta erythrophthalma | Southern Pochard | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Netta peposaca | Rosy-billed Pochard | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Netta rufina | Red-crested Pochard | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Nettapus auritus | African Pygmy-goose, African Pygmy Goose, Pygmy Goose | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Nettapus coromandelianus | Cotton Pygmy-goose, Cotton Pygmy Goose, Cotton Pygmy-Goose | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Nettapus pulchellus | Green Pygmy-goose, Green Pygmy Goose | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Nomonyx dominicus | Masked Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Oxyura jamaicensis | Ruddy Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Oxyura vittata | Lake Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Plectropterus gambensis | Spur-winged Goose | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Pteronetta hartlaubii | Hartlaub's Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Sarkidiornis melanotos | Comb Duck, Knob-billed Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Somateria fischeri | Spectacled Eider | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Somateria mollissima | Common Eider, Eider | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Somateria spectabilis | King Eider | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Stictonetta naevosa | Freckled Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Tachyeres brachypterus | Falkland Steamerduck, Falkland Steamer Duck, Falkland Steamer-Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Tachyeres patachonicus | Flying Steamerduck, Flying Steamer Duck, Flying Steamer-Duck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Tachyeres pteneres | Flightless Steamerduck, Flightless Steamer-Duck, Fuegian Steamer Duck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Tadorna cana | South African Shelduck | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Tadorna ferruginea | Ruddy Shelduck | LC | unknown |
| ANATIDAE | Tadorna radjah | Radjah Shelduck, Raja Shelduck | LC | decreasing |
| ANATIDAE | Tadorna tadorna | Common Shelduck, Shelduck | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Tadorna tadornoides | Australian Shelduck, Chestnut-breasted Shelduck | LC | increasing |
| ANATIDAE | Tadorna variegata | Paradise Shelduck | LC | stable |
| ANATIDAE | Thalassornis leuconotus | White-backed Duck | LC | decreasing |
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birds-waterfowl chart is available at here. This table and chart was last updated on August 8, 2012, based on data downloaded from the IUCN Red List site. For a species profile, click on its scientific name.
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