In 2012, P. erithacus was reclassified as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red-list of Threatened Species on the basis that “the extent of the annual harvest for international trade, in combination with the rate of ongoing habitat loss, means it is now suspected to be undergoing rapid declines over three generations (47 years)” (BirdLife International, 2015). It is further acknowledged that this rate of decline “may be a conservative estimate” give “the high levels of forest loss in parts of the range” (BirdLife International, 2015).