Family: Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Red List Category

Criteria: A2bcd+4bcd

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Justification of Red List category
Arenaria interpres is a widespread species with a global population of 750,000-1,750,000 mature individuals. However the species is exposed to a panoply of threats across its vast range, including habitat loss and degradation, illegal killing, disturbance and possibly reduced breeding productivity caused by factors associated with climate change. While the relative importance of these threats is unknown, monitoring data in several parts of its world—particularly in North America—indicate locally rapid declines over the past three generations. Combining often disparate trend data from across its range and weighting it according to likely regional population sizes, the global population is thought to have declined moderately rapidly, at a rate of c. 20-29% over the past three generations (18 years). It is therefore listed as Near Threatened.

Population size: 750000-1750000 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 17,000,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Afrotropical
Realm - Indomalayan
Realm - Nearctic
Realm - Neotropical
Realm - Oceanian
Realm - Palearctic
Realm - Antarctic
IUCN System - Freshwater
IUCN System - Terrestrial
IUCN System - Marine