Calidris pugnax | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Calidris pugnax | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Near Threatened
Assessment status abreviation
NT
Assessment status criteria
D1
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a restricted non-breeding population in the UAE, which qualifies it for listing as Vulnerable. However the population is stable within the country and globally. Therefore, the species's status has been regional adjusted down to Near Threatened 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
Across its global range the species is threatened by petroleum pollution, wetland and flood-plain drainage (for irrigation and water management), peat-extraction, and land abandonment and changing land management practices that lead to scrub and reed overgrowth (del Hoyo et al. 1996, Grishanov 2006). The species may also suffer future population declines and range contractions as a result of global climate change (Zöckler 2002), and is susceptible to avian influenza (Melville and Shortridge 2006, Gaidet et al. 2007), avian botulism (Blaker 1967, van Heerden 1974, Hubalek et al. 2005) and avian malaria (Mendes et al. 2005), so may be threatened by future outbreaks of these diseases. The most relevant threats within the UAE are changes in coastal land-use and the possibility of oil pollution, but the severity of these threats towards this species is unknown.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The population is thought likely to have been the same or similar in 1996, and it is assessed as NT.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Calidris pugnax | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Calidris |