Limosa lapponica | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Limosa lapponica | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a moderately sized non-breeding population in the UAE that is suspected to be stable at present, and qualifies as Least Concern.
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
Within the UAE, the main threats to the species are likely to be due to coastal land use changes and potentially from oil spills, but the severity of these threats on the species there are uncertain.Individuals that visit the UAE are also impacted upon by a range of threats outside of the country. Threats on the breeding grounds include oil and gas exploration and associated infrastructure development, legal subsistence harvesting and illegal hunting, and increases in predator numbers (Brown et al. 2014). Climate change has the potential to affect vegetation and the extent of suitable breeding habitat (P. Battley in litt. 2016). The species is also threatened by the degradation of stopover and non-breeding sites due to land reclamation, shellfisheries, pollution, human disturbance, reduced river flows,;and in some areas the invasion of mudflats and coastal saltmarshes by mangroves (owing to sea-level rise and increased sedimentation and nutrient loads at the coast from uncontrolled development and soil erosion in upstream catchment areas) (del Hoyo;et al.;1996, Kelin and Qiang 2006, Straw and Saintilan 2006, Melville;et al.;2016).;Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment of wetland areas at non-breeding sites can also cause cyanobacterium blooms that may impact this species's prey species (Estrella;et al.;2011).;The species has also been susceptible to avian influenza in the past so may be threatened by future outbreaks of the virus (Melville and Shortridge 2006).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
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History
With a similar population and a stable global population at the time, the species is assessed as Least Concern in 1996.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Limosa lapponica | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Limosa |