Cursorius cursor | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Cursorius cursor | (Latham, 1787)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Endangered
Assessment status abreviation
EN
Assessment status criteria
D
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a small breeding population in the UAE, which qualifies it for listing as Endangered. The breeding population in the wider Arabian Peninsula is likely to be in decline, so if there is immigration from outside of the UAE, it is possible that it will be decreasing. The species is therefore retained as Endangered 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
Desert encroachment and development is likely impacting suitable breeding habitat for the species (Aspinall 1996), while the increase in desert activities such as dune driving could negatively impact the availability and quality of its habitat (R. Sheldon;in litt. 2019). Failure of rain is also expected to exert a negative impact on the population (S. Alam in litt. 2019).;Outside of the UAE, in the wider Arabian Peninsula, hunting is considered to be a significant threat (Symes et al. 2015), but the degree of impact on the individuals that visit the UAE is uncertain.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The species is thought to have also;qualified as EN in 1996.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Cursorius cursor | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Glareolidae | Cursorius |