Family: Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)

Authority: (Gmelin, 1789)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species was known from Tahiti, French Polynesia, but it has not been recorded since a specimen was collected in 1777, and is now Extinct. Predation by introduced rats is likely to have been the primary driver.

Population size: unknown

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Freshwater