Recurvirostra avosetta
– Least Concern
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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RECURVIROSTRIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Recurvirostra avosetta
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Species Authority:
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(Linnaeus, 1758)
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Common Name/s:
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PIED AVOCET (Eng)
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LC ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2004
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Assessor/s:
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BirdLife International
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Evaluator/s:
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Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
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Justification:
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This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 210,000–460,000 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.
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History:
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| 1988 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 1994 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 2000 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 210,000-460,000 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.
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Countries:
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Native:
Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Angola; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bangladesh; Belarus; Belgium; Bhutan; Botswana; Bulgaria; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Chad; China; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Djibouti; Egypt; Eritrea; Estonia; Ethiopia; France; Gabon; Gambia; Georgia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Hong Kong; Hungary; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Italy; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Korea, Republic of; Kuwait; Lebanon; Lesotho; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Malawi; Mali; Malta; Mauritania; Moldova, Republic of; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nepal; Netherlands; Niger; Nigeria; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Somalia; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Swaziland; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Taiwan, Province of China; Tajikistan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Tunisia; Turkey; Uganda; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Uzbekistan; Viet Nam; Western Sahara; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Vagrant:
Benin; Burundi; Cape Verde; Central African Republic; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Faroe Islands; Finland; Gibraltar; Iceland; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Latvia; Liberia; Luxembourg; Madagascar; Qatar; Rwanda; Togo; United Arab Emirates
Regionally extinct:
Turkmenistan
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Habitat and Ecology
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System:
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Terrestrial; Freshwater
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