Black-necked Stilt
Himantopus mexicanus
Summary 7
The Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) is a locally abundant shorebird of American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from the coastal areas of California through much of the interior western United States and along the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Florida, then south through Central America and the Caribbean to northwest Brazil southwest Peru,east Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands. The northernmost populations, particularly those from inland, are migratory, wintering from the extreme south of...
Distribution 8
North America; range generally extends from Cape Cod to Peru; it is a rare visitor north of this range
Iucn red list assessment 9
Red List Category
LC
Least Concern
Red List Criteria
Version
3.1
Year Assessed
2013
Assessor/s
BirdLife International
Reviewer/s
Butchart, S.
Contributor/s
Justification
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is very large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
History
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2012Least Concern
Sources and Credits
- (c) Doug Greenberg, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/25397257@N00/2383930838
- (c) Flickr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8019/7523557702_5b5c4eda43_b.jpg
- (c) Caleb Slemmons, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/nicelegs.jpg
- (c) DickDaniels (http://carolinabirds.org/), some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Black-necked_Stilt_RWD2.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Black-necked_Stilt.jpg/460px-Black-necked_Stilt.jpg
- (c) 1999 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=129&one=T
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himantopus_mexicanus
- (c) WoRMS for SMEBD, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/28472472
- (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/28149077
