The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Recurvirostra americana

 – Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: CHARADRIIFORMES
Family: RECURVIROSTRIDAE
Scientific Name: Recurvirostra americana
Species Authority: Gmelin, 1789
Common Name/s:
EnglishAMERICAN AVOCET

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 2,500,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 450,000 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 2,500,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 450,000 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:

Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Canada; Cayman Islands; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Greenland; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Honduras; Martinique; Mexico; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Panama; Puerto Rico; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United States; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.


Vagrant:

Jamaica

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial; Freshwater

Citation: BirdLife International 2004. Recurvirostra americana. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 07 August 2008.
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