Alectoris chukar | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Alectoris chukar | (Gray, 1830)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Endangered
Assessment status abreviation
EN
Assessment status criteria
D
Assessment rationale/justification
Due to a presence of a large number of released birds both the population size and trend are uncertain, although it is suspected that the naturally wild population of this species in UAE is fewer than 250 mature individuals. It is therefore listed here as Endangered under criterion D.
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
Released birds pose a threat to this species through genetic contamination from non-native populations;(Panayides et al. 2011).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
It is assessed that in 1996, the national Red List status of this species would have been the same as in this assessment.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Alectoris chukar | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Galliformes | Phasianidae | Alectoris |