Family: Recurvirostridae (Avocets, Stilts)

Authority: Philippi & Landbeck, 1861

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category

This species has a relatively large geographic range size (extent of occurrence >1,300,000 km²), and so does not approach the thresholds for consideration as threatened under range size criteria. Based on large-scale surveys of high Andean wetland, a high-quality estimate of its maximum population size is 7,750 individuals (Lesterhuis et al. in prep), equating to approximately 5,150 mature individuals. Despite its small population size, there is no evidence of declines or threats to this species, and its population trend is probably stable. Suitable habitat remains fairly extensive, and it is not known to suffer serious hunting pressure (Pierce and Kirwan 2020). For these reasons, the species continues to be assessed as Least Concern.

Population size: 2500-9999, 5000 mature individuals

Population trend: stable

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 1,381,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Neotropical
IUCN System - Freshwater