Calidris alpina | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Calidris alpina | (Linnaeus, 1758)
Publication
Asessment status in full
Least Concern
Assessment status abreviation
LC
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a relatively large non-breeding population in the UAE, which is stable at high numbers. Therefore, the species 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
Changes in coastal land-use and the possibility of oil pollution could affect this species in UAE, but the severity of these threats towards this species is unknown. Elsewhere in its range (which could be relevant to species that pass-through or over-winter in UAE) the;species is significantly threatened by the loss of its breeding habitat though afforestation of moorland (del Hoyo et al. 1996, Lavers and Haines-Young 1997).;Additionally, important migratory stop-over habitats are threatened by petroleum pollution, wetland drainage for irrigation, peat-extraction, reedbed mowing and burning, and abandonment and changing land management practices leading to scrub and reed overgrowth (Grishanov 2006). The species is also susceptible to avian influenza (strain H5N1 in particular) and is therefore threatened by outbreaks of the virus (Melville and Shortridge 2006). Climate change is likely to have an effect on this species in the future.
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
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History
The species would have qualified as Least Concern in 1996. Although the population size may have been small in 1996, it is assumed to have still have exceeded 1,000 mature individuals..
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Calidris alpina | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Scolopacidae | Calidris |