Alaemon alaudipes | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Alaemon alaudipes | (Desfontaines, 1789)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Near Threatened
Assessment status abreviation
NT
Assessment status criteria
C2a(ii)
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a small population size within the UAE, which is suspected to be in decline as a result of ongoing threats. As such it is assessed here as Near Threatened under criterion C2a(ii).
Assessment year
2019
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
UAE National Red List Workshop
Affliation of assessor(s)/contributors/reviewers listed on assessment
Government
IGO
Assessor affiliation specific
Government|IGO
Criteria system specifics
IUCN v3.1 + Regional Guidelines v4.0
Criteria system used
IUCN
Criteria Citation
IUCN. 2012. IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, Second edition. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. iv + 32pp pp. And IUCN. 2012. Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
Endemic to region
Not_assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Threats listed in assessment
Changes to land-use (particularly the planting of trees) in desert areas can have local effects on this species (Aspinall 1996), and the species is also negatively impacted by urban development, and the expansion of agriculture. A high rate of nest failure has been recorded, either due to trampling by goats and humans, depredation or overwhelming by drifting sand (Jennings 2010). Off-road driving and the failure of rainfall may also be having a negative impact (S. Alam in litt. 2019).; Overgrazing outside of Protected Areas could also be an issue.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
This species is assessed here as Near Threatened under criterion C2a(ii), as it is suspected that its relatively small population size is undergoing a decline. As key threats such as urban and agricultural expansion likely had minimal impacts on the species in 1996, the backcast assessment for then is considered here to be Least Concern.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Alaemon alaudipes | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Passeriformes | Alaudidae | Alaemon |