The global status of the bird according to the IUCN Red List is Near Threatened, but, in 2008 it was listed as Endangered in Iraq.
This estimate below is at the IUCN Red List and it is very dated.
Glareola nordmanni (click here) has a very large range, breeding in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan and sporadically in Belarus, Hungary and Azerbaijan. It migrates to southern Africa, mainly Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia, and irregularly to West Africa. It is now rarely recorded in West Africa, possibly indicating a dwindling 'sub-population' of breeding birds from south-east Europe that once wintered in larger numbers (Dodman 2002). Some birds winter in Ethiopia, as the observation of 5,000 birds at river Baro in January 1973 indicates (Ash 1977). Passage birds are regularly recorded in Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Iran, Iraq,...
There is every reason to believe the less dense migration to southern Africa is due to chronic upheaval of people and their effect on land and natural resources.
