Merops persicus | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Merops persicus | Pallas, 1773
Publication
Asessment status in full
Endangered
Assessment status abreviation
EN
Assessment status criteria
D
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a very small breeding population in the UAE, which might qualify it for listing as Critically Endangered. However, the population is stable within the country and in the wider Arabian Peninsula; thus, the potential for immigration from outside the UAE remains very high. Therefore, the species's status has been adjusted down one category and is thus listed as Endangered 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
The species can suffer from human disturbance, particularly in colonies near human habitation (e.g. BirdLife International 2015). As for other bee-eater species within the UAE, the greatest threats to the species within UAE are likely to be development on wilderness land, and the potential for reductions in insect populations (Aspinall 1996, Fry and Boesman 2014, BirdLife International 2015). The potential for declines in invertebrate populations as a result of agricultural intensification and future declines in water availability requires further research.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
It is assessed that in 1996, the national Red List status of this species would have been the same as in this assessment.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Merops persicus | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Coraciiformes | Meropidae | Merops |