Endangered
Green Racket-tail
Prioniturus luconensis
The green racket-tail is an endemic parrot of the Philippines where it is found on Luzon and Marinduque.
Appearance
Males are entirely yellow-green, with paler underparts and head. The two central tail feathers are elongated with bare shafts and terminated with black rackets. Females are generally darker and less yellowish, while the bare tail shafts are shorter.
It is the smallest of all the racquet-tails with a total length of about 29 centimetres (11 in).
Range and habitat
The green racket-tail is an endemic parrot of the Philippines where it is found on Luzon and Marinduque. This species was once common, but is rapidly declining and is currently classified as endangered due to lowland deforestation and capture for cage-bird trade. The population is now estimated to be just 300 - 800 mature individuals and is continuing to decline with many local extinctions in its former range.
Improve protection measures against logging at Subic Bay Forest Reserve.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is illegal to hunt, capture, or keep Green racket-tails and any other wild bird in the Philippines under Philippine Law RA 9147. It is listed as Endangered with the population estimated at 300 - 800 mature individuals remaining, as of 2024. It has gone locally extinct in many of its former sites and is feared extinct on Marinduque.
Its main threat is trapping for the cage-bird trade. In 1988, forest cover was just 3% on Marinduque and 24% on Luzon with the remaining forest continuing to be threatened by both legal and illegal logging. Mining, road construction, slash-and-burn or kaingin.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Green Racket-tail is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Green Racket-tail, Wikidata item Q1268318. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
