Cercotrichas galactotes | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Cercotrichas galactotes | (Temminck, 1820)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Near Threatened
Assessment status abreviation
NT
Assessment status criteria
D1
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has been rapidly increasing within the UAE as a breeding species. The population size is still thought to fall beneath the threshold for listing as Vulnerable, but a regional adjustment of one category has been applied. Therefore, the species is listed here as Near Threatened.
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 to management practices of agricultural land could reduce the available breeding habitat for this species (Aspinall 1996). This involves the removal of overgrown patches at corners and edges of fields as well as the clearance of undergrowth (Aspinall 1996).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
This species is thought to have increased in line with increases in managed areas such as gardens and plantations. After applying a regional adjustment, the species would have been listed as Vulnerable under criterion D1 in 1996, whereas it is listed as Near Threatened now.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Cercotrichas galactotes | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Passeriformes | Muscicapidae | Cercotrichas |