Thalasseus bengalensis | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Thalasseus bengalensis | (Lesson, 1831)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a very large breeding population in the UAE, which is increasing rapidly. Therefore, the species is listed as Least Concern 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 the key threats to this species as egg collecting, invasive mammals, development, disturbance and pollution (e.g. from oil). The severity of these threats, however, is uncertain.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The 1996 population is assumed to have been lower but still large, and Least Concern.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Thalasseus bengalensis | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Thalasseus |