Family: Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)

Authority: (Boddaert, 1783)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category

This species has a relatively large geographic range size (extent of occurrence >9,000,000 km²), and so does not approach the thresholds for consideration as threatened under range size criteria. A recent estimate of its population size is 12,700 individuals (Lesterhuis et al. in prep), equating to approximately 8,500 mature individuals, although this estimate is considered low quality owing to its nocturnal habits and extremely secretive behaviour, which might exaggerate the impression of its scarcity (Van Gils et al. 2020). Despite its small population size, and suggestions that it may be decreasing in some parts of its wide range due to hunting (Van Gils et al. 2020), there is no evidence that it is declining overall at a rate approaching the thresholds for consideration as threatened. For these reasons, the species is assessed as Least Concern.

Population size: 8500 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Neotropical
IUCN System - Freshwater
IUCN System - Terrestrial