Phoenicurus ochruros | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Phoenicurus ochruros | (Gmelin, 1774)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a small non-breeding population size within the UAE that could warrant listing as Near Threatened under Criterion D1. There is no strong evidence to support any deterioration and it is likely that there is a rescue effect from outside the country. Therefore, a regional adjustment has been made and the species is listed 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
It is unlikely that the species faces any severe threats within the UAE, although overgrazing outside of Protected Areas potentially could have an impact. In Europe, it is thought large scale redevelopment and regeneration of city centre sites is causing the loss of suitable breeding habitat, as well as everyday disturbance to the species due to anthropogenic activities (see BirdLife International 2015, Wildlife Trust 2015). This could affect individuals that visit UAE, but it is highly uncertain.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
This species has increased its population size since 1996 due to increasing availability of suitable habitat, and it is suspected that the population size (accounting for regional adjustments) may have been sufficiently small in 1996 that it would have warranted a listing as Near Threatened under criterion D1 then, whereas now (2019) it is assessed as Least Concern.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Phoenicurus ochruros | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Passeriformes | Muscicapidae | Phoenicurus |