Rallus aquaticus | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Rallus aquaticus | Linnaeus, 1758
Publication
Asessment status in full
Endangered
Assessment status abreviation
EN
Assessment status criteria
D
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a very small breeding population in the UAE, which qualifies it for listing as Critically Endangered. However, there is high potential for immigration, which is unlikely to decrease. Therefore, the species's status has undergone a regional adjustment down one category and is listed as Endangered at the national level. Whilst the population trend in the UAE is not known, it is a difficult species to survey for.
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 key threats to this species within the UAE come from habitat degradation, via land-use changes, infilling, drainage and potentially pollution (see Aspinall 1996).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
In 1996, the population size was very small, sufficient to qualify for CR (D). As the species had only just become established as a breeding bird, no regional adjustment is made, unlike for the current assessment.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Rallus aquaticus | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Gruiformes | Rallidae | Rallus |