Vanellus indicus | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Vanellus indicus | (Boddaert, 1783)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a small resident population in the UAE, which might qualify it for listing as Near Threatened. However, the population is increasing rapidly within the country and in the wider Arabian Peninsula; thus, the potential for immigration from outside the UAE remains very high. Therefore, the species's status has been adjusted down one category and it 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
Within the UAE the only factor that was deemed a potential threat to this species by Aspinall (1996) is from the infilling of wetland sites.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
In 1996, the breeding population was 200 mature individuals (Aspinall 1996) which qualifies the species as Endangered. Although the species was not breeding elsewhere in the Arabian Peninsula at the time, the species was expanding and colonising from southwest Asia, and a regional adjustment of one category is made, to Vulnerable. The species is now listed as Least Concern, with the improvement in status being the result of natural colonization and range expansion, probably due to increased availability of suitable habitat.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Vanellus indicus | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Charadriidae | Vanellus |