Thalasseus sandvicensis | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Thalasseus sandvicensis | (Latham, 1787)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Vulnerable
Assessment status abreviation
VU
Assessment status criteria
D1
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a very small non-breeding population in the UAE, however the population is now thought to be stable. Therefore, the species could be listed as Endangered at the national level.However, it is thought that the likelihood of significant immigration from the global population is likely, and the species is downlisted by one category to VU.
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
Within the UAE, the main threats to this species are likely to be from coastal land-use changes and possibly oil pollution, but the severity of these threats is essentially unknown. Impacts from fisheries bycatch and marine plastic pollution require further research.Outside of the UAE the species is impacted by other threats which could impact individuals that visit UAE. As only a few colonies exist each year, this tern is highly vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbance (Garthe and Flore 2007) and is known to abandon eggs en masse (Gochfield et al. 2018). This species has also suffered declines due to egg collecting and hunting, which are locally significant in some areas of its range (Gochfield et al. 2018).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
It is also considered to have been Vulnerable in 1996 following a one Category regional adjustment.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Thalasseus sandvicensis | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Thalasseus |