Charadrius alexandrinus | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Charadrius alexandrinus | Linnaeus, 1758
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a relatively large breeding and non-breeding population, and both are thought to be stable. Also in the wider Arabian Peninsula, the population is assumed to be stable, and thus the likelihood of a rescue effect is very high. Therefore, the species is listed 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
Within the UAE coastal development and urbanisation is reducing the amount of available habitat for the species (Aspinall 1996), and as such these threats are likely to be the most pressing issues for the population within the country. Oil spills may also have an effect on coastal ecosystems, but it is uncertain whether these have any effect on this species. The species is susceptible to avian botulism, so may be threatened by future outbreaks of the disease (Blaker 1967).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The species would also have been Least Concern in 1996 based on Aspinall (1996), which gives a;breeding population estimated at 2,600 individuals in 1996 (Aspinall 1966).
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Charadrius alexandrinus | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Charadriidae | Charadrius |