3 thoughts on “Fuegian Snipe (Gallinago stricklandii)”
Dear committee,
Our NGO has been working on some aspects of this species’ life history and ecology in recent years. We agree that the species does not reach any threshold to be classified as Vulnerable.
However, mentioning that the range is “largely remote from threats” might be wrong, since there is a continuous advance in the distribution of the American mink, which is even reaching the most remote breeding areas like Cape Horn (Barroso et al. 2024).
Further, historically this species has been classified as migratory (Kusch & Marin 2010), but presumably in some areas at least part of the population would be resident (Barroso et al. 2024). If at least part of the population is migratory, it might be threatened by the massive development of the wind farm industry in Patagonia (Norambuena et al. 2023).
Finally, we also disagree on whether there is enough information to determine the population trend is “stable.” The population might be declining, out of our sight.
Considering the advance of these two threats, the fact that the population trend is unknown, and the number of locations during the non-breeding season is also completely unknown, we suggest keeping the species classified as “Near Threatened”, as it was recently proposed on the Chilean Endangered Species Act (Raimilla and Matus 2022), where the species is almost endemic.
Referencias
Barroso, O. ., Cañón, C., Novoa, F., Jorquera, M. J., Tranamil, S. L., Jara, R., Vásquez, R. and R. Rossi. (2024). Antecedentes sobre la historia natural de la becacina grande Gallinago stricklandii (Gray 1845):¿ un ave residente en cabo de Hornos?. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia 52: 1-19.
Kusch, A., & Marín, M. (2010). Distribución de la becasina grande Gallinago stricklandii (Gray, 1845)(Scolopacidae), en Chile. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia 38: 145-149
Norambuena, H. V., Labra, F. A., Matus, R., Gómez, H., Luna-Quevedo, D., & Espoz, C. (2022). Green energy threatens Chile’s Magallanes region. Science, 376(6591), 361-362.
Raimilla, V. and R. Matus (2022). Becacina grande. Ficha PAC de antecedentes de la especie.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this discussion. We greatly appreciate the time and effort invested in commenting. The window for consultation is now closed and we are unable to accept any more comments until 3 May 2024. We will now analyse and interpret all information, and we will post a preliminary decision on this species’ Red List status on this page on 3 May 2024, when discussions will re-open.
We thank ROC for the helpful comment above, which provides good evidence that threats are possibly impacting this species, and it might be declining. Precautionarily therefore, the species is suspected to be in decline, and therefore it approaches the thresholds for listing as threatened. Based on available information, our preliminary proposal for the 2024 Red List would be to list Fuegian Snipe as Near Threatened under Criterion C2a(ii).
There is now a period for further comments until the final deadline on 13 May 2024, after which the recommended categorisations will be put forward to IUCN.
The final 2024 Red List categories will be published on the BirdLife and IUCN websites in October 2024, following further checking of information relevant to the assessments by both BirdLife and IUCN.
Dear committee,
Our NGO has been working on some aspects of this species’ life history and ecology in recent years. We agree that the species does not reach any threshold to be classified as Vulnerable.
However, mentioning that the range is “largely remote from threats” might be wrong, since there is a continuous advance in the distribution of the American mink, which is even reaching the most remote breeding areas like Cape Horn (Barroso et al. 2024).
Further, historically this species has been classified as migratory (Kusch & Marin 2010), but presumably in some areas at least part of the population would be resident (Barroso et al. 2024). If at least part of the population is migratory, it might be threatened by the massive development of the wind farm industry in Patagonia (Norambuena et al. 2023).
Finally, we also disagree on whether there is enough information to determine the population trend is “stable.” The population might be declining, out of our sight.
Considering the advance of these two threats, the fact that the population trend is unknown, and the number of locations during the non-breeding season is also completely unknown, we suggest keeping the species classified as “Near Threatened”, as it was recently proposed on the Chilean Endangered Species Act (Raimilla and Matus 2022), where the species is almost endemic.
Referencias
Barroso, O. ., Cañón, C., Novoa, F., Jorquera, M. J., Tranamil, S. L., Jara, R., Vásquez, R. and R. Rossi. (2024). Antecedentes sobre la historia natural de la becacina grande Gallinago stricklandii (Gray 1845):¿ un ave residente en cabo de Hornos?. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia 52: 1-19.
Kusch, A., & Marín, M. (2010). Distribución de la becasina grande Gallinago stricklandii (Gray, 1845)(Scolopacidae), en Chile. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia 38: 145-149
Norambuena, H. V., Labra, F. A., Matus, R., Gómez, H., Luna-Quevedo, D., & Espoz, C. (2022). Green energy threatens Chile’s Magallanes region. Science, 376(6591), 361-362.
Raimilla, V. and R. Matus (2022). Becacina grande. Ficha PAC de antecedentes de la especie.
Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this discussion. We greatly appreciate the time and effort invested in commenting. The window for consultation is now closed and we are unable to accept any more comments until 3 May 2024. We will now analyse and interpret all information, and we will post a preliminary decision on this species’ Red List status on this page on 3 May 2024, when discussions will re-open.
Preliminary proposal
We thank ROC for the helpful comment above, which provides good evidence that threats are possibly impacting this species, and it might be declining. Precautionarily therefore, the species is suspected to be in decline, and therefore it approaches the thresholds for listing as threatened. Based on available information, our preliminary proposal for the 2024 Red List would be to list Fuegian Snipe as Near Threatened under Criterion C2a(ii).
There is now a period for further comments until the final deadline on 13 May 2024, after which the recommended categorisations will be put forward to IUCN.
The final 2024 Red List categories will be published on the BirdLife and IUCN websites in October 2024, following further checking of information relevant to the assessments by both BirdLife and IUCN.