Fulica atra | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Fulica atra | 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 resident population in the UAE, and even though it is supplemented in the non-breeding season, it qualifies the species for listing as Endangered in both the breeding and non-breeding seasons. However, the resident/breeding population is increasing, and the potential for immigration from outside the UAE remains very high. The species is stable/increasing within the Arabian Peninsula. Therefore, the species has been reduced by two categories and is thus listed as 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 range, the species suffers from threats that could impact individuals that pass through or overwinter in UAE. These threats include oil and petroleum pollution (del Hoyo et al. 1996, Grishanov 2006), habitat degradation and loss due to agricultural drainage schemes (Taylor and van Perlo 1998), wetland drainage, changing wetland management practices and the burning and mowing of reeds (Grishanov 2006). The species is often drowned in freshwater fishing nets with mesh sizes greater than 5 cm (Quan et al. 2002). It is also susceptible to avian influenza, so may be threatened by future outbreaks of the virus (Melville and Shortridge 2006). Hunting may also impact this species (del Hoyo et al. 1996, e.g. in Iran; Balmaki and Barati 2006). Of these threats, some such as changing land-use and oil pollution may also have impacts on the species within the UAE, particularly at the coast.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
Breeding was not conformed in the UAE until 2002, and it is considered NA for the 1996 UAE Red List. The assessment here is, therefore, based on the non-breeding population. The species has increased since 1996, but it is tentatively suspected that the minimum population size would still have been >50 mature individuals in 1996, which would have still qualified it as Endangered then, and with regional adjustments taken into account the Red List status it would have received in 1996 would have been the same as here.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Fulica atra | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Gruiformes | Rallidae | Fulica |