Anas platyrhynchos | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Anas platyrhynchos | Linnaeus, 1758
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
Expert opinion at the UAE assessment workshop is that it is possible to differentiate between resident (non-native) and visiting wild populations. The population size is estimated to be at least 1,000 mature individuals, and it is assessed 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
Within the UAE the main threats are likely to be from changes in wetland land-use, and potentially from oil pollution, but the severity of these on the population is uncertain - especially given the presence of a feral population here (which would not count to a Red List assessment).Outside of the UAE the species faces a range of threats, which could impact individuals that visit the country. The species is threatened by wetland habitat degradation and loss from pollution (e.g. petroleum [Grishanov 2006] and pesticides [Kwon et al. 2004]), wetland drainage, peat-extraction, changing wetland management practices (e.g. decreased grazing and mowing in meadows leading to scrub over-growth)and the burning and mowing of reedbeds (Grishanov 2006). The species is hunted over large areas (Kear 2005) and also suffers mortality as a result of lead shot ingestion (e.g. Mateo et al. 1999, Mondain-Monval et al. 2002). It is also susceptible to duck virus enteritis (DVE) (Friend 2006), avian influenza (Melville and Shortridge 2006) and avian botulism (Rocke 2006), so it may be threatened by future outbreaks of these diseases (although it may be able to withstand sporadic losses due to its high reproductive potential) (Rocke 2006).
Conservation Measures
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History
The population in 1996 is thought to have also been moderately large (e.g., 1,000+ at Al Ain), with large visiting (= natural) populations. The species is considered to have been Least Concern in 1996.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Anas platyrhynchos | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Anseriformes | Anatidae | Anas |