Family: Charadriidae (Plovers)

Authority: (Harting, 1873)

Red List Category

Criteria: D1

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Justification of Red List category

This species is considered Vulnerable owing to its small population. It remains threatened by land-use change, particularly human infrastructure development, and nest predation by invasive predators.

Population size: 545 mature individuals

Population trend: increasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 70 km²

Country endemic: yes

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Afrotropical
IUCN System - Terrestrial