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Aris, I. 2017. Ecological Assessment of High Andean Wetlands and Environmental Offset Measures in Mining Activities. SRK Consulting (Peru).

Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.

Boyla, K. and Estrada, A. (eds). 2005. Áreas Importantes para la Conservación de las Aves en los Andes Tropicales: Sitios prioritarios para la conservación de la biodiversidad. BirdLife International and Conservation International, Quito, Ecuador.

eBird. 2024. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. Ithaca, New York. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: http://www.ebird.org.

IUCN. 2024. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 22 October 2024).

Lesterhuis, A,J., Clay, R.P., Sharpe, C., Faria, F., Blanco, D.E., Cifuentes-Sarmiento, Y., Ruiz-Guerra, C., Tejeda, I., Angulo, F. and Andres, B. In prep. Population estimates of shorebirds in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2022.

Marconi, P., Arengo, F. and Clark, A. 2022. The arid Andean plateau waterscapes and the lithium triangle: flamingos as flagships for conservation of high-altitude wetlands under pressure from mining development. Wetlands Ecology and Management 30(4): 827-852.

Otto, M., Gibbons, R. E. 2017. Potential effects of projected decrease in annual rainfall on spatial distribution of High Andean wetlands in southern Peru. Wetlands 37: 647-659.

Pierce, R.J. and G. M. Kirwan. 2020. Andean Avocet (Recurvirostra andina), version 1.0. In Birds of the World. Ithaca, NY, USA. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.andavo1.01.

Ridgely, R.S. 2002. Unpublished data.

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Andean Avocet Recurvirostra andina. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/andean-avocet-recurvirostra-andina on 23/11/2024.
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 23/11/2024.