Family: Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)

Authority: Linnaeus, 1766

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species has a very large geographic range size (extent of occurrence >23 million km² in both the breeding and non-breeding seasons), and so does not approach Criterion B thresholds. It also has a large estimated population size (660,000 mature individuals; Partners in Flight 2023), and so does not approach Criteria C or D thresholds. Considering its population trend over three generations (c. 11 years), the data presented in Smith et al. (2023) indicate a slow decline of c. 4%, albeit with interannual fluctuations. This is broadly consistent with the c. 11% decline recorded by the Breeding Bird Survey (Ziolkowski et al. 2022), as part of a long-term decline. Conversely, data from the Christmas Bird Count (Meehan et al. 2022) indicate a stable non-breeding population in the southern USA (following a slow long-term increase there, possibly due to short-stopping under climate change), while eBird (Fink et al. 2023) suggests a c. 6% increase on the breeding grounds. The overall population trend is therefore considered stable, and certainly is not declining rapidly. It therefore does not approach Criterion A thresholds, and the species continues to warrant listing as Least Concern.

Population size: 660000 mature individuals

Population trend: stable

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 23,400,000 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Nearctic
Realm - Neotropical
Realm - Palearctic
IUCN System - Freshwater
IUCN System - Terrestrial
IUCN System - Marine