Anthus campestris | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Anthus campestris | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
Although this species has a relatively small non-breeding population size within the UAE, there is no strong evidence to support any deterioration in the population (and it is likely that there is a rescue effect from outside the country). Therefore, the species is listed here as Least Concern as it does not approach the thresholds for listing as threatened.
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
Overgrazing outside of Protected Areas potentially could have an impact on this species, while climate change may also have an impact (Tyler and Christie 2016).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
This species has increased its population size since 1996 due to increasing availability of suitable irrigated habitat, and it is suspected that the population size (accounting for regional adjustments) may have been sufficiently small in 1996 that it would have warranted a listing as Near Threatened under criterion D1 then, whereas now (2019) it is assessed as Least Concern.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Anthus campestris | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Passeriformes | Motacillidae | Anthus |