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Journal of Threatened Taxa PLATINUM The Journal of Threatened Taxa (JoTT) is dedicated to building evidence for conservaton globally by publishing peer-reviewed artcles OPEN ACCESS online every month at a reasonably rapid rate at www.threatenedtaxa.org. All artcles published in JoTT are registered under Creatve Commons Atributon 4.0 Internatonal License unless otherwise mentoned. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproducton, and distributon of artcles in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publicaton. Journal of Threatened Taxa Building evidence for conservaton globally www.threatenedtaxa.org ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) Communication Status of the Critically Endangered Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis (Gmelin, 1789) in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal Hem Sagar Baral, Tek Raj Bhat, Sailendra Raj Giri, Ashok Kumar Ram, Shyam Kumar Shah, Laxman Prasad Poudyal, Dhiraj Chaudhary, Gitanjali Bhatacharya & Rajan Amin 26 June 2020 | Vol. 12 | No. 9 | Pages: 16006–16012 DOI: 10.11609/jot.4832.12.9.16006-16012 For Focus, Scope, Aims, Policies, and Guidelines visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0 For Artcle Submission Guidelines, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For Policies against Scientfc Misconduct, visit htps://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/about/editorialPolicies#custom-2 For reprints, contact <[email protected]> The opinions expressed by the authors do not refect the views of the Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Informaton Liaison Development Society, Zoo Outreach Organizaton, or any of the partners. 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Member Threatened Taxa Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 June 2020 | 12(9): 16006–16012 ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) PLATINUM OPEN ACCESS DOI: htps://doi.org/10.11609/jot.4832.12.9.16006-16012 #4832 | Received 18 January 2019 | Final received 24 March 2020 | Finally accepted 29 May 2020 C o m m Status of the Critcally Endangered Bengal Florican u n i Houbaropsis bengalensis (Gmelin, 1789) in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal c a 1 2 3 4 5 t Hem Sagar Baral , Tek Raj Bhat , Sailendra Raj Giri , Ashok Kumar Ram , Shyam Kumar Shah , i Laxman Prasad Poudyal 6 , Dhiraj Chaudhary 7 , Gitanjali Bhatacharya 8 & Rajan Amin 9 o n 1,2,3 Zoological Society of London Nepal Ofce, PO Box 5867, Kathmandu, Nepal. 4,5,6 Department of Natonal Parks and Wildlife Conservaton, PO Box 860, Babarmahal, Kathmandu, Nepal. 8,9 Zoological Society of London, London NW1 4RY, UK. 1 School of Environmental Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Albury-Wodonga, New South Wales, Australia. 7 Himalayan Nature, PO Box 10918, Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal. 1 [email protected] (corresponding author), 2 [email protected], 3 [email protected], 4 [email protected], 5 [email protected], 6 [email protected], 7 [email protected], 8 [email protected], 9 [email protected] Abstract: The Bengal Florican is one of the rarest bustard species and is listed ‘Critcally Endangered’ by the IUCN. The species is restricted to the lowland grasslands of India, Nepal, and Cambodia with fewer than 1,000 mature individuals. To assess the species status in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal, we repeated our frst comprehensive survey conducted during the 2012 breeding season. In spite of a larger area coverage we recorded only 41 adult Bengal Floricans in 2017 compared to 47 individuals in 2012. Detectability of this rare species is low in its Imperata-Saccharum grasslands. We, therefore, used a long pole with black and white clothing to mimic Bengal Florican’s display fight to stmulate male Bengal Florican. The number of adult males recorded was the same as in the 2012 survey and the adult male density remains one of the highest in the Indian subcontnent. Management recommendatons for the long-term conservaton of the species in Koshi Tappu include maintenance of Imperata-Saccharum grasslands in the reserve favoured by the Bengal Florican and working with farmers and communites adjacent to the reserve where the birds breed in order to maintain some agricultural lands with vegetaton height suitable for the species especially during the species’ breeding season. Keywords: Otdiformes, Otdidae, bustard, abundance, terai grasslands, bird, fagship species, threats. 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