ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROFILE

PROTECTION STATUS: Endangered

YEAR LISTED: 2010

RANGE: Forests on the island of St. Lucia, West Indies

THREATS: Deforestation; competition with and predation by nonnative species

POPULATION TREND: The St. Lucia forest thrush is extremely rare. Only six confirmed sightings of the bird have occurred in the last few years, and a survey in 2007 turned up no birds at all.

St. Lucia forest thrush photo © Sveta Ashby/
www.birdfinders.co.uk