Anthus spinoletta | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Anthus spinoletta | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a small non-breeding population size within the UAE that could warrant listing as Near Threatened under Criterion D1. However, there is no strong evidence to support any deterioration and it is likely that there is a rescue effect from outside the country. Therefore, a regional adjustment has been made and the species is listed here 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 land-use changes may have an impact on this species, but the severity of such a threat is essentially unknown. Artificial habitats that favour this species within the UAE may be transient, so monitoring of such habitats will be important. Individuals visiting the country are likely to be impacted by other threats. For instance, in some areas, grazing animals have been shown to have a significant negative impact on the nesting success of this species (Pavel 2004). It is also thought to be threatened by climate change (Ebenhöh 2003, Melendez and Laiolo 2014).
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 spinoletta | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Passeriformes | Motacillidae | Anthus |