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Branta hutchinsii

Aleutian Cackling Goose · (Gmelin, 1789)

Branta hutchinsii, Aleutian Cackling Goose
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Red List, global
LC
Least Concern, 2021
First CITES listing
I
Appendix I, 1975
CITES trade records
25
1983–2012 · exporter-reported
Unit dimensions
1
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. Aleutian Cackling Goose is among the birds.

In summary derived

Branta hutchinsii, Aleutian Cackling Goose, is placed in family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, class Aves. The earliest CITES listing row the corpus holds for it is Appendix II, dated 1975. The corpus records 1 dated listing row in total.

Its latest global Red List assessment is Least Concern, published 2021. It carries 5 earlier global assessments on the current scale and 4 on scales that were superseded before the current categories and cannot be compared with them.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 1983 to 2012, reported across 1 unit dimension. The most frequently recorded term is live (15 records). The corpus holds no NAMMCO catch records for it. No seizure record in the corpus is attributed to it.

Composed from 16 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_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
Aves
Order
Anseriformes
Family
Anatidae
First CITES listing
1975
Global Red List status
LCLeast Concern, assessed 2021
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.

Trade over time

listed 19751983: 1 records1989: 1 records1994: 1 records1995: 2 records1996: 1 records1997: 1 records1998: 1 records1999: 1 records2000: 7 records2001: 3 records2002: 2 records2003: 1 records2010: 2 records2012: 1 records1980199020002010
Peak 7 records in 2000. Trade records per year, exporter-reported, every term and unit counted as records, not quantities.
listed 19751983: 15 specimens1989: 4 specimens1994: 6 specimens1995: 4 specimens1997: 8 specimens1998: 8 specimens1999: 8 specimens2000: 16 specimens2001: 30 specimens2002: 8 specimens2003: 8 specimens198019902000
Peak 30 specimens in 2001. Quantity of live, the term with most records (15), in specimens, exporter-reported. Other terms are in the tables below, each in its own unit.

count measured in specimens

25 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
live74 specimens121989–2003C
derivatives2 specimens22010O
live15 specimens11983not recorded
eggs6 specimens11995C
live8 specimens12000F
bodies1 specimen12000O
feathers1 specimen12000O
unspecified1 specimen12000O
bodies1 specimen12000W
live18 specimens12001W
skeletons1 specimen12012W
trophies19 specimens11996W

Showing the 12 term and source combinations with the most records, of 13.

CITES listings curated

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

DateAppendixAnnotationStatus
1975-07-01IIAleutian Canada goose - Now classified as Branta hutchinsii leucopareia. Recovered population, downlisted from Appendix Ifirst listing

Convention on Migratory Species

Listed under CMS: Appendix II.

IUCN Red List derived

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

LCNTVUENCR19882000201020212006: Least Concern (global)2008: Least Concern (global)2009: Least Concern (global)2012: Least Concern (global)2016: Least Concern (global)2021: Least Concern (global)?1988: Not recognised, which records that no assessment was made — carries no position on the risk order1994: Not recognised, which records that no assessment was made — carries no position on the risk order2000: Not recognised, which records that no assessment was made — carries no position on the risk order2004: Not recognised, which records that no assessment was made — carries no position on the risk orderLCNTVUENCR19882000201020212006: Least Concern (global)2008: Least Concern (global)2009: Least Concern (global)2012: Least Concern (global)2016: Least Concern (global)2021: Least Concern (global)?1988: Not recognised, which records that no assessment was made — carries no position on the risk order1994: Not recognised, which records that no assessment was made — carries no position on the risk order2000: Not recognised, which records that no assessment was made — carries no position on the risk order2004: Not recognised, which records that no assessment was made — carries no position on the risk order
  • published global assessment
  • 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.

Category movement since listing: not scored. Gate 3: the baseline category NR comes from a pre-2001 Red List system and is not on the modern ordinal scale. Not recognised. How this is defined and why some species are not scored

YearCategoryMeaningScopeStatus
2021LCLeast ConcernGlobalcurrent for this scope
2016LCLeast ConcernGlobal
2012LCLeast ConcernGlobal
2009LCLeast ConcernGlobal
2008LCLeast ConcernGlobal
2006LCLeast ConcernGlobal
2004NRNot recognisedGlobal
2000NRNot recognisedGlobal
1994NRNot recognisedGlobal
1988NRNot recognisedGlobal

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
2021IUCN Red List Assessment (2021)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2016IUCN Red List Assessment (2016)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2012IUCN Red List Assessment (2012)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2009IUCN Red List Assessment (2009)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2008IUCN Red List Assessment (2008)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2006IUCN Red List Assessment (2006)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2004IUCN Red List Assessment (2004)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
2000IUCN Red List Assessment (2000)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1994IUCN Red List Assessment (1994)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1988IUCN Red List Assessment (1988)iucn_assessmentchecked against iucn_assessments
1975-07-01Listed in CITES Appendix IIcites_listingchecked against cites_listings