Family: Charadriidae (Plovers)

Authority: Pallas, 1776

Red List Category

Criteria: A2bce+4bce

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Justification of Red List category
This species is one of many shorebirds in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway that is in steep decline. It breeds only in Far Eastern Russia, before migrating south through East Asia to winter (mostly) in Australia. There are a large number of threats impacting this species across this flyway, especially on passage where land reclamation for urban development, and invasion by Spartina cordgrass, has considerably reduced the area of suitable habitat available to it. On its breeding grounds, climate change may also be having an effect, but the impact of this threat on Siberian Sandplover is poorly known. Data suggest that these threats have driven population declines of 50–62% over the past three generations (2010–2023). If threats are not ameliorated, and declines do not slow or cease, then this species is at a relatively high risk of becoming extinct in the near-future. Accordingly it is listed as Endangered.

Population size: 18000-50000 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 3,200,000 km²

Country endemic: yes