Charadrius leschenaultii | UAE National Red List of Birds
Taxa
Charadrius leschenaultii | Lesson, 1826
Publication
Asessment status in full
Near Threatened
Assessment status abreviation
NT
Assessment status criteria
D1
Assessment rationale/justification
This species has a restricted;non-breeding population in the UAE, which qualifies it for listing as Vulnerable. On a global scale, the species is still considered as Least Concern although declines have been observed, however a rescue effect is still considered likely. The population is stable within the country, and the assessment category is revised from Vulnerable by one category to Near Threatened.
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.The species also faces a range of threats globally, that could have an impact on individuals that visit the country. In some parts of its breeding range this species is threatened by the destruction of wetlands and bordering fallow steppe through drainage and water extraction for irrigation (Turkey) (del Hoyo et al. 1996, Snow and Perrins 1998). Favoured migration staging posts, such as the Çukurova delta in southern Turkey are under increasing pressure from hunting, tourism and industrial activities, and are often polluted along the coast with oil (Tucker and Heath 1994).;The species is also susceptible to disturbance from tourists (e.g. National Parks and Wildlife Service 1999, Wearne and Underhill 2005).
Conservation Measures
Conservation measures:
Conservation measures notes:
Required conservation measures:
History
While the species was not observed prior to 1988, and still observed in small numbers at individual sites in 1996, it is thought that the overall population size would still have qualified the species as Vulnerable in 1996, downlisted by one step to Near Threatened.
Scientific Name | Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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Charadrius leschenaultii | Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Charadriiformes | Charadriidae | Charadrius |