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Taxonomic source(s)
AERC TAC. 2003. AERC TAC Checklist of bird taxa occurring in Western Palearctic region, 15th Draft. Available at: #http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Bird_taxa_of _the_WP15.xls#.
Christidis, L. and Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.
Cramp, S. and Simmons, K.E.L. (eds). 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
SACC. 2005 and updates. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: #http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm#.
Turbott, E.G. 1990. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand. Ornithological Society of New Zealand, Wellington.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2018	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Least Concern
2009	Least Concern
2008	Least Concern
2004	Least Concern
2000	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1994	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1988	Lower Risk/Least Concern

Migratory status	full migrant	Forest dependency	does not normally occur in forest
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence breeding/resident (km2)	20,800,000	medium
Extent of Occurrence non-breeding (km2)	116,000,000	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Value	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Number of mature individuals		poor	estimated	2012
Population trend	unknown		suspected	-
Generation length (years)	4.9	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population is estimated to number c.1,350,000-2,980,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2015), while the population in Russia has been estimated at c.10,000-1 million breeding pairs and >1,000 individuals on migration (Brazil 2009). The European population is estimated at 570-1,700 males, which equates to 1,100-3,400 mature individuals (BirdLife International 2015). The population is therefore placed in the band 1,300,000-2,999,999 individuals.

Trend justification: The overall population trend is not known (Wetlands International 2015). In North America, the species has undergone a small or statistically insignificant increase over the last 40 years (data from Breeding Bird Survey and/or Christmas Bird Count: Butcher and Niven 2007). Note, however, that these surveys cover less than 50% of the species's range in North America. The European population trend is not known (BirdLife International 2015).

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding	Non-breeding	Passage
Angola	extant	native
Anguilla (to UK)	extant	uncertain
Antarctica	extant	vagrant
Antigua and Barbuda	extant	vagrant
Argentina	extant	native
Australia	extant	vagrant
Austria	extant	native				yes
Bahamas	extant	uncertain
Barbados	extant	vagrant
Belgium	extant	native
Bermuda (to UK)	extant	native
Bosnia and Herzegovina	extant	vagrant
Botswana	extant	vagrant
Brazil	extant	vagrant			yes
Bulgaria	extant	vagrant
Cameroon	extant	vagrant
Canada	extant	native		yes		yes
Cape Verde	extant	native
Chile	extant	native
China (mainland)	extant	native
Colombia	extant	native
Costa Rica	extant	native			yes
Côte d'Ivoire	extant	native
Croatia	extant	vagrant
Cuba	extant	native
Cyprus	extant	vagrant
Czechia	extant	native
Denmark	extant	native				yes
Dominica	extant	uncertain
Dominican Republic	extant	uncertain
Ecuador	extant	native
Egypt	extant	native
El Salvador	extant	native
Equatorial Guinea	extant	uncertain
Faroe Islands (to Denmark)	extant	vagrant
Finland	extant	vagrant
France	extant	native			yes	yes
Gambia	extant	vagrant
Germany	extant	native			yes	yes
Ghana	extant	vagrant
Gibraltar (to UK)	extant	vagrant
Greece	extant	vagrant
Greenland (to Denmark)	extant	native		yes
Guadeloupe (to France)	extant	uncertain
Guatemala	extant	native
Guinea	extant	vagrant
Guinea-Bissau	extant	native
Honduras	extant	native
Hong Kong (China)	extant	vagrant
Hungary	extant	vagrant
Iceland	extant	native		yes
India	extant	native
Iran, Islamic Republic of	extant	native				yes
Iraq	extant	vagrant				yes
Ireland	extant	native
Israel	extant	native			yes	yes
Italy	extant	native
Japan	extant	native
Kazakhstan	extant	vagrant
Kenya	extant	vagrant
Kiribati	extant	vagrant
Kuwait	extant	vagrant				yes
Liberia	extant	vagrant
Libya	extant	vagrant
Luxembourg	extant	vagrant
Malaysia	extant	native
Malta	extant	vagrant
Martinique (to France)	extant	uncertain
Mauritania	extant	native
Mexico	extant	native
Montenegro	extant	vagrant
Morocco	extant	native
Mozambique	extant	native
Namibia	extant	native
Netherlands	extant	native			yes
New Zealand	extant	vagrant
Nicaragua	extant	uncertain
Nigeria	extant	vagrant
Norway	extant	vagrant
Oman	extant	vagrant			yes	yes
Panama	extant	uncertain
Paraguay	extant	native
Peru	extant	native
Philippines	extant	native
Poland	extant	vagrant
Portugal	extant	native			yes
Puerto Rico (to USA)	extant	uncertain
Romania	extant	vagrant
Russia	extant	native		yes
Russia (Asian)	extant	native		yes
Russia (Central Asian)	extant	native		yes
Russia (European)	extant	native		yes
São Tomé e Príncipe	extant	uncertain
Saudi Arabia	extant	vagrant				yes
Senegal	extant	vagrant
Serbia	extant	vagrant
Sierra Leone	extant	vagrant
Slovakia	extant	vagrant
Slovenia	extant	vagrant
South Africa	extant	native
South Korea	extant	vagrant
Spain	extant	native			yes
Sri Lanka	extant	vagrant			yes
St Pierre and Miquelon (to France)	extant	native				yes
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	extant	native		yes
Sweden	extant	vagrant
Switzerland	extant	native
Taiwan, China	extant	native
Tajikistan	extant	vagrant
Togo	extant	vagrant
Tunisia	extant	vagrant
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK)	extant	uncertain
Ukraine	extant	vagrant
United Arab Emirates	extant	vagrant			yes
United Kingdom	extant	native				yes
USA	extant	native		yes
Virgin Islands (to UK)	extant	uncertain
Virgin Islands (to USA)	extant	vagrant
Western Sahara	extant	uncertain
Zimbabwe	extant	vagrant

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Greenland (to Denmark)	Hochstetter Forland
Greenland (to Denmark)	South coast of Germania Land, and Slaedelandet
Greenland (to Denmark)	Western part of Germania land
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	Nordenskiöldkysten
Canada	Rasmussen Lowlands
Canada	Foxe Basin Islands
USA	Teshekpuk Lake-E. Dease Inlet
USA	Barrow Canyon & Smith Bay
USA	Bering Sea Shelf Edge 178W61N
USA	Unimak & Akutan Passes
Russia (Asian)	Perevolochny bay
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	Adventdalen & Adventfjorden
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	Inner parts of Kongsfjorden
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	Sassen-Bünsow Land
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	Bjørnøya (Bear Island)
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands (to Norway)	Forlandet National Park
Mauritania	Canary current shelf-break (south)
Morocco	Canary current shelf-break (north)
Russia (Asian)	Lower Anadyr lowlands
Russia (Asian)	Preobrazheniya island
Russia (Asian)	Kolyma delta
Russia (Asian)	Lower Nizhnyaya Taymyra river

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Marine Intertidal	Rocky Shoreline	suitable	breeding
Marine Intertidal	Tidepools	suitable	breeding
Marine Neritic	Macroalgal/Kelp	major	non-breeding
Marine Neritic	Pelagic	major	non-breeding
Marine Neritic	Seagrass (Submerged)	major	non-breeding
Marine Neritic	Subtidal Loose Rock/pebble/gravel	major	non-breeding
Marine Neritic	Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs	major	non-breeding
Marine Neritic	Subtidal Sandy	major	non-breeding
Marine Neritic	Subtidal Sandy-Mud	major	non-breeding
Marine Oceanic	Epipelagic (0-200m)	suitable	non-breeding
Marine Oceanic	Mesopelagic (200-1000m)	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands	major	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Tundra Wetlands (incl. pools and temporary waters from snowmelt)	major	breeding
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Threat (level 1)	Threat (level 2)	Impact and Stresses
Climate change & severe weather	Habitat shifting & alteration	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Future		Whole (>90%)		Unknown		Unknown
		Stresses Indirect ecosystem effects, Ecosystem degradation

Purpose	Primary form used	Life stage used	Source	Scale	Level	Timing
Pets/display animals, horticulture	-	-	-	international	non-trivial	recent
Pets/display animals, horticulture	-	-		international	non-trivial	recent

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2023) Species factsheet: Phalaropus fulicarius. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/red-phalarope-phalaropus-fulicarius on 24/09/2023. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2023) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org on 24/09/2023.