Family: Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)

Authority: (Vieillot, 1816)

Red List Category

Criteria: A2ac+3c+4ac

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Justification of Red List category
This species has been uplisted to Near Threatened owing to evidence that it is undergoing a moderately rapid population decline, driven by on-going habitat loss and degradation, disturbance and hunting pressure. This assessment may prove to be conservative, however, and further data may require that the species be uplisted again in the near future. Comprehensive monitoring is therefore needed to better quantify the species's global population trend.

Population size: 29500

Population trend: Decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 7,560,000 km²

Country endemic: No

Attributes
Realm - Indomalayan
Realm - Nearctic
Realm - Oceanic
Realm - Palearctic
IUCN Ecosystem -- Freshwater biome
IUCN Ecosystem -- Terrestrial biome
IUCN Ecosystem -- Marine biome