<P> A large number of passerine birds breed in the deserts, salt flats, plains, dunes and mountains . Twelve species of wheatear have been recorded in the country as well as warblers, babblers, rollers, bulbuls, the desert lark and many others . The sooty falcon overwinters in Madagascar and breeds in the United Arab Emirates . Other than this, there are only a small number of raptor species; Bonelli's eagle, barbary falcon, short - toed snake eagle, long - legged buzzard and lappet - faced vulture . </P> <P> Many of the large mammals found in the Arabian Peninsula were well - adapted to desert life in the harsh terrain, but were wiped out by human hunting in the last hundred years or so . Hunting is now banned in the United Arab Emirates, but feral goats and donkeys are plentiful and graze indiscriminately, lessening the chance for the native gazelles to recover from their reduced population sizes . Large terrestrial mammals still found in the United Arab Emirates include the Arabian tahr, the Arabian oryx, the sand gazelle and the mountain gazelle . Carnivores include the Arabian wolf, the striped hyena, the red fox, the Blanford's fox, the Rüppell's fox, the caracal, the Arabian wildcat, the sand cat and the Arabian leopard . Other mammals include the Cape hare, the Brandt's hedgehog, the desert hedgehog and the long - eared hedgehog . </P> <P> The Egyptian fruit bat is found here during most of the year, but moves around according to the availability of fruit . Insectivorous bats include the sac - winged bat, the mouse - tailed bat and the leaf - nosed bat . Small rodents include the lesser Egyptian jerboa, the Cheesman's gerbil and the Balochistan gerbil . Rather larger rodents are the Libyan jird and the Sundevall's jird which both favour desert habitats . The Cairo spiny mouse was found in the mountains for the first time in 1995 . </P> <P> Over 54 species of terrestrial reptile have been recorded in the UAE . These include a large number of lizards, found in all environments from desert, to city, to mountain - top, and a single species of worm lizard . There are thirteen species of terrestrial snake, some of the largest being the sand boa, the saw - scaled viper and the horned viper, and four species of sea snake as well as green sea turtles present in the Persian Gulf . There are two species of amphibian in the United Arab Emirates, the Arabian toad and the Dhofar toad; the former is more commonly seen as the Dhofar toad is nocturnal . </P>

Names of regions where an ecosystem is found in the uae