The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Limosa lapponica

 – Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: CHARADRIIFORMES
Family: SCOLOPACIDAE
Scientific Name: Limosa lapponica
Species Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name/s: BAR-TAILED GODWIT (Eng)

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 100,000–1,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 1,100,000 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-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
1994-Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004)
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 100,000-1,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 1,100,000 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:

Afghanistan; Algeria; American Samoa; Angola; Armenia; Australia; Austria; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Belgium; Botswana; Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory; Brunei Darussalam; Bulgaria; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada; Cape Verde; China; Comoros; Congo; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Côte d'Ivoire; Denmark; Djibouti; Egypt; Eritrea; Estonia; Fiji; Finland; France; Gabon; Gambia; Georgia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Guam; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Hong Kong; Hungary; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kiribati; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Madagascar; Malawi; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Mayotte; Mexico; Micronesia, Federated States of; Moldova, Republic of; Mongolia; Morocco; Namibia; Nauru; Netherlands; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Nigeria; Niue; Northern Mariana Islands; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Qatar; Russian Federation; Saint Helena; Samoa; Sao Tomé and Principe; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Slovakia; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Sweden; Switzerland; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Togo; Tonga; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Viet Nam; Western Sahara; Yemen; Zambia


Vagrant:

Burundi; Christmas Island; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Croatia; Equatorial Guinea; Faroe Islands; French Southern Territories; Gibraltar; Jordan; Lebanon; Liberia; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Malta; Mauritius; Montenegro; Romania; Réunion; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Slovenia; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Virgin Islands, U.S.; Zimbabwe

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial; Freshwater

Citation: BirdLife International 2004. Limosa lapponica. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 July 2008.
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