Charadrius hiaticula | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Charadrius hiaticula | Linnaeus, 1758
Publication
Asessment status in full
Near Threatened
Assessment status abreviation
NT
Assessment status criteria
D1
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a very small non-breeding population in the UAE, which qualifies it for listing as Vulnerable. On a global scale, the species is in slight decline however still Least Concern. Therefore, the species is downlisted by one category to Near Threatened (D1) at the national level.
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
The most relevant threats within UAE are changes in coastal land-use and the possibility of oil pollution, but the severity of these threats towards this species is unknown.Individuals of this species that visit UAE are also potentially threatened by a range of threats that operate outside of the country. Migratory stop-over habitats for this species may be threatened by petroleum pollution, wetland drainage for irrigation, land abandonment and changing land management practices leading to scrub overgrowth (Grishanov et al. 2006). The species is also susceptible to avian botulism, so may be impacted on by future outbreaks of the disease (Blaker 1967). Climate change is a potential future threat.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The population size in 1996 is thought to have been more or less the same as at present, with anthropogenic wetland habitats replacing those lost to development on the coast, so the species is also assessed as NT for 1996.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Charadrius hiaticula | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Charadriidae | Charadrius |