The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Limosa haemastica

 – Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: CHARADRIIFORMES
Family: SCOLOPACIDAE
Scientific Name: Limosa haemastica
Species Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name/s:
EnglishHUDSONIAN GODWIT

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria: LC    ver 3.1 (2001)
Year Assessed: 2004
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Evaluator/s: Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
Justification: This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 180,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 50,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2002). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
History:
1988-Near-threatened (Collar and Andrew 1988)
1994-Lower Risk/near threatened (Collar, Crosby and Stattersfield 1994)
2000-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description: This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 180,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 50,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2002). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Countries: Native:

Argentina; Barbados; Bolivia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; Ecuador; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Mexico; Paraguay; Peru; United States; Uruguay; Venezuela


Vagrant:

Australia; Bahamas; Belize; Cuba; Denmark; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Fiji; Netherlands Antilles; New Zealand; Puerto Rico; Saint Lucia; South Africa; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United Kingdom; Virgin Islands, U.S.


Uncertain presence and origin:

Costa Rica; Guatemala; Panama

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial; Freshwater

Citation: BirdLife International 2004. Limosa haemastica. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 September 2008.
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