Spatula clypeata | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Spatula clypeata | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a large non-breeding population in the UAE, which qualifies it for listing as Least Concern.
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 threatened by a range of threats that operate outside of the country: For instance, the species is threatened by habitat loss from drainage and changing farmland practices (Hagemeijer and Blair 1997), and it is occasionally killed by collisions with power transmission lines (Malcolm 1982). It is susceptible to avian influenza (Melville and Shortridge 2006, Gaidet et al. 2007) and avian botulism (Forrester et al. 1980) so may be threatened by future outbreaks of these diseases. The species is frequently hunted in large proportion of its range (e.g. North America, Europe and Iran [Baldassarre and Bolen 1994, Balmaki and Barati 2006, BirdLife International 2015), but is rarely taken in large numbers (Kear 2005). The species suffers mortality as a result of lead shot ingestion (Camargue, Franceand Spain [Mateo et al. 1998, Mondain-Monval et al. 2002]).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
In 1996, the species is likely to have qualified as Vulnerable (D1), downlisted to NT based on a regional assessment. This rate of increase is likely due to increased artificial wetland sites.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Spatula clypeata | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Anseriformes | Anatidae | Spatula |