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Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)

Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)
Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)

About Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Pelicans
  • Family: Ibises and Spoonbills


Red List Category
LC
Least Concern

Red List Criteria

Version
3.1

Year Assessed
2012

Assessor/s
BirdLife International

Reviewer/s
Butchart, S. & Symes, A.

Contributor/s

Justification
This species has a very 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 fluctuating, 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 may be moderately small to large, but it is not believed to 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.

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

Lifelists

Visits

  • 2012-01-13
    Otago Peninsula / Dunedin, New Zealand
    On the mudflats at Warrington.
  • 2012-11-06
    Cairns Esplanade, Australia
    Image from 2012-11-06
  • 2012-11-11
    Lakefield National Park, Australia
  • 2012-11-13
    Keatings Lagoon Conservation Park, Australia