The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Eudromias morinellus

 – Least Concern

Taxonomy

Kingdom: ANIMALIA
Phylum: CHORDATA
Class: AVES
Order: CHARADRIIFORMES
Family: CHARADRIIDAE
Scientific Name: Eudromias morinellus
Species Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name/s:
EnglishEURASIAN DOTTEREL

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 1,000,000–10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 49,000–210,000 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 1,000,000-10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 49,000-210,000 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:

Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Armenia; Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Canada; China; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Egypt; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; Kazakhstan; Kuwait; Lebanon; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of; Malta; Mongolia; Morocco; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russian Federation; Saudi Arabia; Slovakia; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia; Turkey; Ukraine; United Kingdom; United States


Vagrant:

Bahrain; Bermuda; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Faroe Islands; Gambia; Iceland; Jordan; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Mauritania; Montenegro; Oman; Serbia; Slovenia; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; United Arab Emirates

Habitat and Ecology

System: Terrestrial

Citation: BirdLife International 2004. Eudromias morinellus. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 27 August 2008.
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