Sterna hirundo | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Sterna hirundo | Linnaeus, 1758
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a small non-breeding population in the UAE, which might qualify it for listing as Near Threatened. However, the population is increasing rapidly within the country. Moreover, in the wider Arabian Peninsula, the species is stable. Therefore, breeding populations outside of the country may have a large rescue effect. Therefore, the species has undergone a regional adjustment and is listed as Least Concern 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
Globally, during the breeding season, the species is vulnerable to human disturbance at nesting colonies (Buckley and Buckley 1984, Blokpoel and Scharf 1991), with sources of disturbance including off-road vehicles, recreation, motor-boats, personal watercraft and dogs (van Halewyn and Norton 1984, Hyde 1997, Burger 1998, Gochfeld et al. 2018). The flooding of nest sites as a result of naturally fluctuating water levels can also result in complete breeding failure of the affected colony (Buckley and Buckley 1984, Hyde 1997, Gochfeld et al. 2018). Previously, this species has experienced significant declines due to egg collecting, hunting and the millinery trade (Gochfeld et al. 2018). Although in most places populations have recovered, hunting remains a significant problem in some areas (Gochfeld et al. 2018). However, the extent to which all of these threats impact individuals that visit the UAE is uncertain. Within the UAE, an additional threat to the species comes from oil pollution.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
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History
Although there are few records from the 1996 period, it is considered likely to have been LC in 1996.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Sterna hirundo | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Laridae | Sterna |