Calidris falcinellus | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Calidris falcinellus | (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Endangered
Assessment status abreviation
EN
Assessment status criteria
A2a; C1+2a(i,ii)
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a very small non-breeding population in the UAE, which is undergoing a rapid decline. Moreover, wetland habitats within the UAE are likely to be deteriorating due to land conversion. Therefore, the species could warrant listing as Critically Endangered at the national level. However, given the large and stable global populations, we downlist this assessment to Endangered for the UAE.
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
Changes in coastal land-use and the possibility of oil pollution could affect this species in UAE, but the severity of these threats towards this species is unknown. It is uncertain the extent to which factors affecting breeding populations (e.g. see BirdLife International 2015) could impact individuals that do pass-through/over-winter in UAE. Climate change is likely to have an effect on this species in the future, including sea level rise.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The population would have been at significantly larger in 1996, with counts of; > 500 individuals at Ras Al Khor in the 1990s, and the overall population would have been in excess of 1,000 individuals. Significant declines in habitat area and quality did not commence until after 1996, and the species is assessed as Least Concern in 1996.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Calidris falcinellus | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Calidris |