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Taxonomic source(s)
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.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2020	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	medium
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	6,410,000 km2	medium
Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding)	3,190,000 km2	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	3500000 mature individuals	poor	estimated	2016
Population trend	decreasing	-	estimated	-
Rate of change over the past 10 years/3 generations (longer of the two periods)	13%	-	-	-
Generation length	4.6 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population is estimated to number 3,500,000 mature individuals (Partners in Flight 2019).

Trend justification: This species has undergone a large, significant decline between 1966 and 2017 (Partners in Flight 2019). Monitoring of displaying males during the breeding season across a large proportion of the breeding range suggest statistically significant declines of approximately 1% in annual abundance during 1968-2019 (Seamans and Rau 2019). This equates to declines of 13% over the past three generations (13.8 years). Declines are more pronounced in the eastern part of the range than in the western part (Seamans and Rau 2019).

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Bermuda (to UK)	extant	vagrant				yes
Canada	extant	native		yes
Mexico	extant	native
St Pierre and Miquelon (to France)	extant	native		yes		yes
USA	extant	native		yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Forest	Temperate	major	non-breeding
Forest	Temperate	major	breeding
Shrubland	Temperate	suitable	non-breeding
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Scale
Food - human	subsistence, national
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international
Sport hunting/specimen collecting	subsistence, national

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: American Woodcock Scolopax minor. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/american-woodcock-scolopax-minor on 22/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 22/12/2024.