Recurvirostra avosetta | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Recurvirostra avosetta | Linnaeus, 1758
Publication
Asessment status in full
Endangered
Assessment status abreviation
EN
Assessment status criteria
D
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a very small breeding population in the UAE, which might qualify it for listing as Critically Endangered. However, the population is increasing rapidly within the country and is stable in the wider Arabian Peninsula; thus, the potential for immigration from outside the UAE remains very high. Therefore, the species's status has undergone a regional adjustment down one category, classifying it as Endangered.The non-breeding population is also relatively small, and would qualify as Endangered, but it could also rescued by breeding populations from outside the country. Therefore overall, the non-breeding population would be listed as Vulnerable at the national level after a regional adjustment, if the breeding population were not to take precedence for the final Red List status.
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 the species is unknown.Individuals of this species that visit UAE are threatened by a range of threats that operate outside of the country. For instance, the species is threatened in Europe by the pollution of wetlands with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), insecticides, selenium, lead and mercury (del Hoyo et al. 1996).;The species is susceptible to avian botulism (Blaker 1967, Hubalek et al. 2005) and avian influenza (Melville and Shortridge 2006) so may be threatened by future outbreaks of these diseases.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
There were no breeding records in 1996, and so the genuine change to be looked at here is for the non-breeding population.Wintering (non-breeding) population in 1996 is thought to have been c. 200 individuals, qualifying as EN, downlisted to VU, the same category as the non-breeding population would receive now if the breeding population did not take precedence.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Recurvirostra avosetta | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Recurvirostridae | Recurvirostra |