Family: Charadriidae (Plovers)
Authority: (Vieillot, 1818)
Red List Category
Criteria: C1
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Justification of Red List categoryThis species has been uplisted to Vulnerable because it has a small population, which has been estimated through monitoring to be undergoing continuing declines of over 10% in three generations (39 years). Declines in eastern Australia are caused by reduced breeding success as a result of disturbance by people, dogs and horses, as well as predation by introduced foxes and native gulls and corvids that have increased as a result of human activity; in Western Australia declines are less marked and driven by habitat degradation arising from cattle grazing and water abstraction for agriculture.
Population size:
7000
Population trend:
Decreasing
Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident):
7,900,000 km
2
Country endemic:
Yes
Attributes
Land-mass type - Australia
Land-mass type - shelf island
Realm - Oceanic
IUCN Ecosystem -- Freshwater biome
IUCN Ecosystem -- Marine biome