In 2014, approximately 95 of the nation’s 365 regularly-occurring bird species were considered to be ecologically dependent on forest. Only one forest species was considered likely to have been nationally extirpated in the last century: White-bellied Woodpecker Dryocopus javensis. Instead, the majority of forest species were considered at that time to have a good conservation status nationally, including species like the globally Vulnerable Fairy Pitta Pitta nympha, thanks in large part to a combination of the maturation of forests planted in the second half of last century and the warming climate, resulting in a gradual northward spread of warm temperate broad-leaved evergreen forest and the spread of mixed and oak forest (Moores et al. 2014).