Phalacrocorax carbo | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Phalacrocorax carbo | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Near Threatened
Assessment status abreviation
NT
Assessment status criteria
D1
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a small non-breeding population in the UAE, which might qualify it for listing as Vulnerable. However, the population is stable, indicating that the conditions within the UAE are not deteriorating. Moreover, the species is increasing globally, so there is a potentially high rescue effect from individuals outside of the country. Therefore, the species's status has undergone a regional adjustment down one category and is classified 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
Due to the species's foraging behaviour (shallow diving) and habit of hunting within purse-seine and gill-nets, the species is particularly susceptible to bycatch. Although these unintentional effects of fishing activities are not currently found to be driving colony declines, they could present problems on both local and global scales if populations were to decline (Bregnballe and Frederiksen 2006). The species is also susceptible to oil spills across its range.Outside of the UAE the species also faces a range of other threats, which could impact individuals that visit the country. The species is often persecuted by the aquaculture industry and may be shot, drowned or poisoned in attempts to control numbers (Carss 1994) or for hunting;(Bzoma;et al. 2011). It may also suffer from disturbance from coastal wind farms (wind turbines) (Bradbury;et al. 2014), and is susceptible to avian influenza (Melville and Shortridge 2006) and Newcastle disease (Kuiken 1999), so may be threatened by future outbreaks of these viruses (Kuiken 1999, Melville and Shortridge 2006).;Recreational activities taking place at sea may also cause displacement from critical habitat. The species is hunted for recreation and is sold at commercial food markets in some countries e.g. Iran (Balmaki and Barati 2006).
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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Phalacrocorax carbo | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Suliformes | Phalacrocoracidae | Phalacrocorax |