Family: Charadriidae (Plovers)

Authority: (Vieillot, 1818)

Red List Category

Criteria: C1

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Justification of Red List category
This species has been uplisted to Vulnerable because it has a small population, which has been estimated through monitoring to be undergoing continuing declines of over 10% in three generations (39 years). Declines in eastern Australia are caused by reduced breeding success as a result of disturbance by people, dogs and horses, as well as predation by introduced foxes and native gulls and corvids that have increased as a result of human activity; in Western Australia declines are less marked and driven by habitat degradation arising from cattle grazing and water abstraction for agriculture.

Population size: 7000 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 7,900,000 km²

Country endemic: yes

Attributes
Land-mass type - Australia
Land-mass type - shelf island
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Freshwater
IUCN System - Marine