Passer domesticus | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Passer domesticus | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species is thought to have an extremely large resident population size within the UAE, which is suspected to be increasing as it colonises new areas. Therefore, it is assessed here 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
Declines in western Europe have been attributed to a decrease in availability of suitable invertebrate food necessary for rearing young as well as possible reduced fitness of those young that fledge successfully (Summers-Smith et al. 2015). This may be as a result of changes in agricultural practices such as the increased use of pesticides and herbicides and the autumn sowing of cereals, which have lead to decreases in food for this species (Hagemeijer and Blair 1997), although this is not thought to be a threat operating within the UAE. Indeed, Aspinall (1996) did not highlight any particular threats to the species within the country.
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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Passer domesticus | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Passeriformes | Passeridae | Passer |