Family: Charadriidae (Plovers)

Authority: Schlegel, 1865

Red List Category

Criteria: C1

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Justification of Red List category
This species is classified as Near Threatened because it is likely to have a small to moderately small population which, owing to the development pressures on the coastal areas it inhabits, is likely to be undergoing a decline, although there is insufficient information available on its sub-population structure.

Population size: 6700-17000 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 8,240,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Land-mass type - shelf island
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Indomalayan
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Marine