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Limnodromus semipalmatus
– Near Threatened
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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AVES
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Order:
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CHARADRIIFORMES
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Family:
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SCOLOPACIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Limnodromus semipalmatus
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Species Authority:
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(Blyth, 1848)
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Common Name/s:
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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NT ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2006
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Assessor/s:
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BirdLife International
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Evaluator/s:
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Benstead, P., Butchart, S. & Stattersfield, A. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
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Justification:
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Nearly qualifies as threatened under criteria A2cde+3cde; C1.
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History:
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| 1988 | - | Threatened (Collar and Andrew 1988) |
| 1994 | - | Lower Risk/near threatened (Collar, Crosby and Stattersfield 1994) |
| 2000 | - | Lower Risk/near threatened (BirdLife International 2000) |
| 2004 | - | Near Threatened (BirdLife International 2004) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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Limnodromus semipalmatus has a disjunct breeding range in the steppe regions that extend from west to east Siberia, Russia, and south into Mongolia and Heilongjiang in north-east China. It has been recorded as a non-breeding visitor to Japan, North Korea, South Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong (China), Taiwan (China), Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. It breeds in extensive freshwater wetlands in the steppe and forest steppe zones, and during the non-breeding season it occurs in sheltered coastal environments, primarily estuarine and intertidal mudflats, lagoons, creeks and saltworks. The population size is estimated at 23,000 individuals1. It is dependent on rather a small number of wetlands, notably the wintering sites at the Banyuasin Delta on Sumatra, where up to 13,000 were estimated in 1988, and Ujung Pangkah in east Java. It may therefore be particularly vulnerable to habitat loss, hunting, pollution and other pressures on both the breeding and wintering grounds. CMS Appendix II.
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Countries:
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Native:
Australia; Bangladesh; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; China; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Japan; Kazakhstan; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Malaysia; Mongolia; Myanmar; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Russian Federation; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Uzbekistan; Viet Nam
Vagrant:
Kenya; United Arab Emirates; Yemen
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Habitat and Ecology
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System:
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Terrestrial; Freshwater
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