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Berardius bairdii

Baird's Beaked Whale

Berardius bairdii, Baird's Beaked Whale
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Red List, global
LC
Least Concern, 2020
First CITES listing
II
Appendix II, 1979
CITES trade records
25
1986–2019 · exporter-reported
Unit dimensions
2
reported separately, never summed
NAMMCO catch entries
none
NAMMCO reports a subset of marine mammals
Seizure records
0
reported taxon matches

One of 43: each square a species, coloured by its latest global Red List category, this one ringed. Baird's Beaked Whale is among the cetaceans.

In summary derived

Berardius bairdii, Baird's Beaked Whale, is placed in family Ziphiidae, order Cetacea, class Mammalia. It was first listed in Appendix II in 1979. The earliest CITES listing row the corpus holds for it is Appendix I, dated 1983, a later entry that lists it as part of Berardius spp. The corpus records 1 dated listing row in total.

Its latest global Red List assessment is Least Concern, published 2020. It carries 1 earlier global assessment on the current scale and 2 on scales that were superseded before the current categories and cannot be compared with them.

The corpus holds 25 exporter-reported CITES trade records for it, from 1986 to 2019, reported across 2 unit dimensions. The most frequently recorded term is specimens: 19 records across 2 unit dimensions, of which 16 are measured in specimens. The corpus holds no NAMMCO catch records for it. No seizure record in the corpus is attributed to it.

Composed from 18 corpus fields, by template, with no model
  • species.class
  • species.family
  • species.order_name
  • species_catch.catch_total
  • species_iucn.is_global
  • species_iucn.status
  • species_iucn.year_published
  • species_listing.appendix
  • species_listing.listing_date
  • species_listing_event.appendix
  • species_listing_event.event_date
  • species_seizure.*
  • species_trade.dimension
  • species_trade.first_year
  • species_trade.last_year
  • species_trade.record_count
  • species_trade.reporter_type
  • species_trade.term

Each sentence is generated from the columns above and nothing else. The same corpus produces the same text every time. Where a field is absent the sentence is omitted rather than hedged.

Overview curated

Taxonomy entered by a named curator and versioned in the repository.

Class
Mammalia
Order
Cetacea
Family
Ziphiidae
First CITES listing
1979
Global Red List status
LCLeast Concern, assessed 2020
Content withheld pending expert review

8 narrative sections for this species were machine-drafted and are not shown. No subject expert has reviewed and signed them.

Trade derived

CITES Trade Database v2025.1, extracted 13 June 2025.

There is no single trade total

Quantities are reported per unit dimension, per traded term, and per reporting side. These are not additive: kilograms and individual animals have no common unit, a live animal is not a carving, and an importer report and an exporter report are two accounts of one shipment rather than two shipments.

Figures below are exporter-reported.

count in specimens
22
packaging in containers
3

Records per dimension. Not additive across units.

Trade over time

listed 19791986: 2 records1991: 1 records1994: 1 records1997: 1 records1998: 2 records1999: 2 records2000: 1 records2001: 2 records2003: 2 records2006: 3 records2008: 1 records2009: 2 records2011: 1 records2014: 1 records2015: 1 records2018: 1 records2019: 1 records1980199020002010
Peak 3 records in 2006. Trade records per year, exporter-reported, every term and unit counted as records, not quantities.
listed 19791994: 1 specimens1997: 2 specimens1999: 51 specimens2000: 1 specimens2001: 4 specimens2003: 41 specimens2006: 19 specimens2008: 9 specimens2009: 15 specimens2011: 2 specimens2014: 1 specimens1980199020002010
Peak 51 specimens in 1999. Quantity of specimens, the term with most records (16), in specimens, exporter-reported. Other terms are in the tables below, each in its own unit.

count measured in specimens

22 of 25 records carry a quantity in specimens. CITES leaves the unit blank to mean a count of the term.

Bars count trade records per term, not specimens, all sources combined; the table splits them by source and gives the quantity in specimens.
TermQuantityRecordsYearsSource
specimens146 specimens161994–2014W
skulls76 specimens21986not recorded
skeletons2 specimens22018–2019W
bones47 specimens11991not recorded
skin pieces13 specimens12015W

packaging measured in containers

3 of 25 records carry a quantity in containers.

TermQuantityRecordsYearsSource
specimens14 containers31998–2006W

CITES listings curated

CoP decisions, cross-checked against the appendix reported on trade records.

First listed on 1979-06-28, in Appendix II, from the CITES listing history. The table below holds the species' current listing entries, which begin later; earlier coverage is often under a higher taxon.

DateAppendixAnnotationStatus
1983-07-29I[GENUS listing Berardius spp.] Included in Berardius spp.earliest current entry

Convention on Migratory Species

Listed under CMS: Appendix II. Also covered by Pacific Islands Cetaceans, which are separate instruments with their own annexes.

IUCN Red List derived

Assessment history. Scope is always stated: a regional assessment is not the species status.

This history crosses a criteria revision

Categories from before 2001 come from earlier Red List systems. Three kinds are kept apart.

LR/lc and LR/nt are the modern LC and NT under their old names, so they are plotted as those categories and the line runs through them: nothing changed but the wording.

LR/cd was discontinued with no successor. This project reads it as Near Threatened, following a published crosswalk between the old and new Red List systems, and the chart marks such a point hollow and names both codes, because placing a category is not the same as finding it published.

The pre-1994 codes (E, V, K, T and the rest) are not on the risk order at all, so they sit below the axis and the line breaks across them. A category change across a criteria revision is not a change in extinction risk, and none of these is scored as a movement: the ledger refuses every one of them at gate 3.

LCNTVUENCR19942000201020201996: LR/cd, Lower Risk, conservation dependent (1994 system, discontinued 2001) (global). Placed at Near Threatened by the crosswalk this project adopted (Lin et al. 2025, doi:10.1111/cobi.70103); the category IUCN published is LR/cd.2020: Least Concern (global)?1994: Insufficiently Known (pre-1994; not a risk category), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order2008: Data Deficient — carries no position on the risk orderLCNTVUENCR19942000201020201996: LR/cd, Lower Risk, conservation dependent (1994 system, discontinued 2001) (global). Placed at Near Threatened by the crosswalk this project adopted (Lin et al. 2025, doi:10.1111/cobi.70103); the category IUCN published is LR/cd.2020: Least Concern (global)?1994: Insufficiently Known (pre-1994; not a risk category), from a superseded Red List system — carries no position on the risk order2008: Data Deficient — carries no position on the risk order
  • published global assessment
  • placed on the scale by a crosswalk
  • not on this scale (below the axis)
Vertical position is the IUCN risk order, not a measured quantity: the gaps between categories are equal on the page and not in nature. Anything that is not one of the nine modern categories carries no position on that order — Data Deficient, a superseded category, or a record that no assessment was made — so it sits below the axis and the line breaks across it rather than joining through. Each point names which it is. One point is hollow: the category was discontinued with no successor and is placed on this scale by the crosswalk this project adopted (Lin et al. 2025, doi:10.1111/cobi.70103), not published on it. The code IUCN published is in the table below and in the point's own label.

Category movement since listing: not scored. Gate 3: the baseline category K comes from a pre-2001 Red List system and is not on the modern ordinal scale. Insufficiently Known (pre-1994; not a risk category). How this is defined and why some species are not scored

YearCategoryMeaningScopeStatus
2020LCLeast ConcernGlobalcurrent for this scope
2008DDData DeficientGlobal
1996LR/cdLower Risk, conservation dependent (1994 system, discontinued 2001)Global
1994KInsufficiently Known (pre-1994; not a risk category)Global

Reported catch derived

NAMMCO catch exports dated 11 June 2025. A reported zero is stored as zero, distinct from an unknown.

No NAMMCO catch records for this species. NAMMCO reports on a subset of marine mammals, so an absence here is expected for most species and does not mean no catch occurred.

Illegal trade seizures derived

Seizure records whose reported taxon resolves to this species.

What the seizure source records

No seizure in the compilation names this species. Matching is on the taxon the source reported, case aside. Across the whole compilation, 225 of 919 rows match one of the 43 species and the rest name other taxa.

Quantities are unitless. The source gives no date or place, so the table shows the product and the reported taxon.

No seizure records attributed to this species.

References withheld

Machine-proposed bindings. Shown only where an expert has signed the profile and the binding is live.

No references are recorded for this species: none is shown, and none was machine-proposed for review.

Timeline curated

Curated events. Those with no corroborating table in this database are marked.

DateEventTypeCorroboration
2020IUCN Red List Assessment (2020)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2008IUCN Red List Assessment (2008)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1996IUCN Red List Assessment (1996)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1994IUCN Red List Assessment (1994)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1983-07-29Listed in CITES Appendix Icites_listingchecked against cites_listings