Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Aves > Order: Charadriiformes > Family: Scolopacidae > Genus: Calidris > Species: Calidris melanotos

Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos (Viellot, 1819)

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Threat status Europe	Not evaluated (IUCN)
Protected by	3 international agreements

Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Least Concern

Europe

Not evaluated

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

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EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Legal status

Mentioned in the following international legal instruments and agreements

Legal text	Annex	Conditions	More information
Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats (Bern Convention)	Annex III: protected fauna species		http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cul.../bern/default_en.asp
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals. (Bonn Convention)	Annex II: migratory species which have an unfavourable conservation status and which require international agreements for their conservation and management, as well as those which have a conservation status which would significantly benefit from the international co-operation that could be achieved by an international agreement.	All the species of the family Scolopacidae are concerned by Appendix II.	http://www.cms.int/
	Annex II: migratory species which have an unfavourable conservation status and which require international agreements for their conservation and management, as well as those which have a conservation status which would significantly benefit from the international co-operation that could be achieved by an international agreement.	Synonym for this species is listed in Appendix II of the Bonn Convention (CMS). See there for more details.

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Bécasseau à poitrine cendrée	French	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Biegus arktyczny	Polish	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Correlimos Pectoral	Spanish	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Gestreepte Strandloper	Dutch	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Graubruststrandläufer	German	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Jespák skvrnitý	Czech	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Palsasirri	Finnish	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Pectoral Sandpiper	English	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Pilrito-peitoral	Portuguese	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Piro-piro pettorale	Italian	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Tuvsnäppa	Swedish	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.
Vándorpartfutó	Hungarian	Hagemeijer, W.J.M. & Blair, M.J.

Synonym	Author
Tringa melanotos	Viellot, 1819
Erolia melanotos	(Viellot, 1819)

Other resources

EBCC Atlas of breeding birds	European Bird Census Council's Atlas of Breeding Birds
EURing code:05070	European bird-ringing
EoL	Encyclopedia of Life
Fauna Europaea search	Fauna Europaea
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI search	National Center for Biotechnology Information
Wikipedia	Wikipedia

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