Calidris ferruginea | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Calidris ferruginea | (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a moderate-sized non-breeding population in the UAE, which qualifies it for listing as Least Concern. On a global scale, the species is assessed as Near Threatened due to a rapid decline, and breeding populations outside of the country may not have a large rescue effect, therefore no regional adjustment has been made to this assessment.
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 most relevant threats within UAE are changes in coastal land-use and the possibility of oil pollution, but the severity of these threats towards this species is unknown.The key threats to the global population of this species, which may occur outside of the country, but could still be relevant to individuals that visit UAE include; habitat loss due to development, reservoir and marshland habitat alteration by salt-industries, habitat degradation by diminishing rainfall, and illegal hunting (bird trapping);(Balachandran 2006). This species is susceptible to avian influenza (Melville and Shortridge 2006, Gaidet et al. 2007) and avian botulism (Blaker 1967, van Heerden 1974) so may be threatened by future outbreaks of these diseases. Climate change is also a potential future threat.
Conservation Measures
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History
It is assessed that in 1996, the national Red List status of this species would have been the same as in this assessment.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Calidris ferruginea | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Calidris |