Calidris minuta | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Calidris minuta | (Leisler, 1812)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a relatively large non-breeding population in the UAE, which is assumed to be stable at high numbers. Therefore, the species is listed as Least Concern at the national level.
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. This species is also susceptible to avian malaria (Mendes et al. 2005) and avian botulism (Blaker 1967, van Heerden 1974), so may be threatened by future outbreaks of these diseases. Climate change may have an impact on this species in the future.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The species would have qualified as Least Concern in 1996,;with c. 1,000-3,000 mature individuals in 1996 (EBRC data).
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Calidris minuta | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Calidris |