European Red List waders.

The European Red List of Birds is a review of the regional threat status of the 533 wild bird species occurring naturally and regularly in Europe, according to the IUCN Regional Red List Guidelines. It has just been published and it makes grim reading especially the list of Vulnerable species many of which we have long considered relatively common; Eurasian Oystercatcher, Northern Lapwing, Eurasian Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit and Curlew Sandpiper.

Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa.

Extinct

Canarian Black Oystercatcher - Haematopus meadewoldoi

Regionally Extinct

Caspian Plover - Charadrius asiaticus

Critically Endangered (possibly Extinct)

Slender-billed Curlew - Numenius tenuirostris

Common Buttonquail Turnix sylvaticus (note: WQ has not yet adopted this species as a wader).

Critically Endangered

Sociable Lapwing - Vanellus gregarius

Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius

Vulnerable

Eurasian Oystercatcher - Haematopus ostralegus

Greater Sandplover - Charadrius leschenaultii

Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus

Red-wattled Lapwing Vanellus indicus

Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata

Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa

Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea

Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni

Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus

Near Threatened  

Cream-coloured Courser - Cursorius cursor

Least Concern

Eurasian Thick-knee - Burhinus oedicnemus

Pied Avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta

Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus

Grey (Black-bellied) Plover - Pluvialis squatarola

Eurasian Golden Plover - Pluvialis apricaria

Eurasian Dotterel - Eudromias morinellus

Common Ringed Plover - Charadrius hiaticula

Little Ringed Plover - Charadrius dubius

Kentish Plover - Charadrius alexandrinus

Spur-winged Lapwing - Vanellus spinosus

White-tailed Lapwing - Vanellus leucurus

Eurasian Whimbrel - Numenius phaeopus

Bar-tailed Godwit - Limosa lapponica

Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres

Red Knot - Calidris canutus

Ruff - Calidris pugnax

Broad-billed Sandpiper - Calidris falcinellus

Temminck's Stint - Calidris temminckii

Sanderling - Calidris alba

Dunlin - Calidris alpina

Purple Sandpiper - Calidris maritima

Baird's Sandpiper - Calidris bairdii

Little Stint - Calidris minuta

Eurasian Woodcock - Scolopax rusticola

Pintail Snipe - Gallinago stenura

Great Snipe - Gallinago media

Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago

Jack Snipe - Lymnocryptes minimus

Red-necked Phalarope - Phalaropus lobatus

Grey (Red) Phalarope - Phalaropus fulicarius

Terek Sandpiper - Xenus cinereus

Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos

Green Sandpiper - Tringa ochropus

Spotted Redshank - Tringa erythropus

Common Greenshank - Tringa nebularia

Common Redshank - Tringa totanus

Wood Sandpiper - Tringa glareola

Marsh Sandpiper - Tringa stagnatilis

Collared Pratincole - Glareola pratincola

Eurasian Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus

Apart from the inclusion of the buttonquail which we used to call Andalusian Hemipode, a much more romantic name, it is worthy of note that Baird's Sandpiper is included. This is due to a breeding population that breeds in Greenland which pertains to Denmark. 

Baird's Sandpiper Calidris baridii

For a full list of European bird species see http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/info/euroredlist