Porphyrio porphyrio | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Porphyrio porphyrio | (Linnaeus, 1758)
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 increasing, and the potential for immigration from outside the UAE remains very high. Therefore, the species's status has undergone a regional adjustment; down one category and is thus listed as Endangered at the national level, as the evidence for increase is not yet in place.
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 main threat to this species within UAE is likely to be from land-use changes. Globally the use of pesticides has been noted as a possible threat too, although this is unlikely to impact individuals in the UAE. The species is also susceptible to avian influenza (Melville and Shortridge 2006, Gaidet;et al.;2007) and avian botulism, so may be threatened by future outbreaks of these diseases (Galvin;et al.;1985).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
The species was not breeding in the UAE in 1996; the first breeding record was in 2004. Therefore, it would not have been assessed in 1996.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Porphyrio porphyrio | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Gruiformes | Rallidae | Porphyrio |