Pandion haliaetus | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Pandion haliaetus | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Vulnerable
Assessment status abreviation
VU
Assessment status criteria
D1
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a very small breeding population in the UAE, which might qualify it for listing as Endangered. However, the population is stable within the country and in the wider Arabian Peninsula; thus, the potential for immigration from outside the UAE remains very high. Therefore, the species's status has undergone a regional adjustment down one category and is thus listed as Vulnerable 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
Aspinall (1996) identifies several key threats to this species within the UAE. Introduced mammals (e.g. cats) can have impacts at breeding sites, as well as industrial and oil development on breeding islands (Aspinall 1996). Additionally, dredging, pollution and anthropogenic disturbance are also priority threats to address (Aspinall 1996). The building of connection causeways to the mainland can result in pairs abandoning nesting sites (Aspinall 1996), and birds can become entangled in and killed by discarded plastic that is used as a nesting material (Aspinall 1996). In the wider Arabian Peninsula it has been noted that the species faces a threat from nest predation by White-tailed Mongoose;Ichneumia albicauda;(Symes et al. 2015).
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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Pandion haliaetus | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Accipitriformes | Pandionidae | Pandion |