Numenius arquata | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Numenius arquata | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Vulnerable
Assessment status abreviation
VU
Assessment status criteria
D1
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a restricted, stable non-breeding population in the UAE, which qualifies it for listing as Vulnerable. On a global scale, the species is listed as Near Threatened due to a rapid decline in recent years. Therefore, breeding populations outside of the country may not have a large rescue effect. Therefore, the species is precautionarily retained as Vulnerable 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
Changes in coastal land-use and the possibility of oil pollution could affect this species in UAE, but the severity of these threats towards this species is unknown.Individuals of this species that over-winter in UAE are also impacted by a range of threats outside of the country (e.g. on their breeding ground). The species is threatened by the loss and fragmentation of moorland habitats as a result of afforestation (del Hoyo et al. 1996, Johnsgard 1981) and of marginal grassland habitats as a result of agricultural intensification and improvement (Johnsgard 1981,Baines 1988,;del Hoyo;et al.;1996) (e.g. drainage, inorganic fertilisation and reseeding) (Baines 1988). The species also suffers from high egg and chick mortalities due to agricultural practices (e.g. Tuellinghoff and Bergmann 1993, Grant 1997, Fisher and Walker 2015), human disturbance (Boschert and Rupp 1993) and higher predation rates if nesting on improved grasslands or in fragmented landscapes (del Hoyo et al. 1996, Valkama and Korpimäki 1999, Douglas et al. 2014). Conversely, some populations have declined following abandonment of farmland and subsequent increases in the height of vegetation (Broyer and Roche 1991), rendering large areas unsuitable for nesting. Climate change is projected to have a large negative impact on this species during the breeding season (Huntley et al. 2007, Renwick et al.;2012). Expansion of renewable energy projects including wind farms can also have an impact, although more studies are required (Pearce-Higgins et al. 2009). The species has also suffered population declines as a result of hunting (Johnsgard 1981), and is susceptible to avian influenza so may be threatened by future outbreaks of the virus (Melville and Shortridge 2006).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
Populations may have been smaller in 1996, but not below the threshold for EN. Therefore, this species would have been considered Vulnerable in 1996.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Numenius arquata | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Numenius |