Tringa totanus | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Tringa totanus | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a moderate non-breeding population within UAE and record counts have shown the population to be increasing rapidly. The population size exceeds the threshold for Vulnerable under the relevant Criterion D, and so it is assessed here 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 species is susceptible to avian influenza so may be threatened by future outbreaks of the virus (Melville and Shortridge 2006). 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.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The population size is not known for 1996 but is presumed to exceed 1,000 mature individuals, and hence it is assessed as Least Concern for that year.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Tringa totanus | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Tringa |