Anthus campestris | UAE National Red List of Birds

Taxa
Anthus campestris | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Location
Countries in Assessment
United Arab Emirates
Country ISO code(s)
ARE
Does the assessment cover a marine EEZ area(s)?
Off
Scope (Assessment)
National
Taxon
Taxonomic Group
Vertebrates
Taxonomic Group Level 2
Birds
Assessed taxon level
Species
Taxon distribution as listed in assessment
This species is very common during migration and winter in open country throughout the UAE. Numbers are highest between mid-September and late April. The species is uncommon between May and August (Pedersen et al. 2017). Individuals wintering in or migrating through the UAE breed in western-central Asia.
Habitats and Ecology
Ecological system type
Terrestrial system
No
Freshwater system
No
Marine system
No
Habitat
Habitat details as listed in assessment
This species inhabits a wide variety of open country, including sparsely vegetated plains, grassland, desert scrub, cultivations, parks and rubbish dumps (Richardson 1990, Aspinall and Porter 2011). There is no information available about its diet in the UAE; elsewhere it mainly feeds on insects, although other invertebrates and seeds are also taken, as well as rarely small vertebrates (Tyler and Christie 2016). The species often occurs in groups (Richardson 1990). It is migratory and breeds between mid-April and mid-August.
Is there a map available in assessment?
Yes
Assessed status
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
Although this species has a relatively small non-breeding population size within the UAE, there is no strong evidence to support any deterioration in the population (and it is likely that there is a rescue effect from outside the country). Therefore, the species is listed here as Least Concern as it does not approach the thresholds for listing as threatened.
About the assessment
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
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.
Endemism
Endemic to region
Not_assigned
Endemism Notes
Is an endemic?: Not_assigned
Conservation
Threats listed in assessment
Overgrazing outside of Protected Areas potentially could have an impact on this species, while climate change may also have an impact (Tyler and Christie 2016).
Conservation Measures

Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:

Further information
History
This species has increased its population size since 1996 due to increasing availability of suitable irrigated habitat, and it is suspected that the population size (accounting for regional adjustments) may have been sufficiently small in 1996 that it would have warranted a listing as Near Threatened under criterion D1 then, whereas now (2019) it is assessed as Least Concern.
Scientific Name Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus
Anthus campestris Animalia Chordata Aves Passeriformes Motacillidae Anthus