Puffinus persicus | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Puffinus persicus | Hume, 1873
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
The non-breeding population size is extremely large. The population trend is not known, but it is not believed to be decreasing sufficiently rapidly to approach the threshold for listing as threatened under the population trend criterion. For these reasons the species is evaluated 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
The main threat to this species likely occur outside of UAE waters - globally, population size has been historically limited by humans taking chicks for food, a practice which continues on a local basis today at breeding sites. Little is known about the level of impact, but;caution should be exerted since the cause for the overall global decline in this species is unknown (Brooke 2004).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The species was first recorded in the early 1990s (907 birds off Ras Dibba). The species is considered to also have been Least Concern in 1996.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Puffinus persicus | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Procellariiformes | Procellariidae | Puffinus |