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Threatened Birds of India
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Why birds are threatened
• Habitat Destruction
• Expansion of Agriculture
• Rapid Industrialization
• Poaching and Trade
• Global Warming and Climate
Change
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Categories of threatened birds
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Extinct – not seen at least for 50 years
Critically Endangered – likely to be extinct
Endangered – high risk of extinction
Vulnerable – risk of extinction
Near threatened – close to vulnerable
Least Concern – not qualify any of the above
Data deficient – no information available
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Threatened Birds Scenario
Species
World
India
Critically Endangered
181
9
Endangered
351
12
Vulnerable
674
59
Near Threatened
795
58
2001
138
Total
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Critically Endangered
• In Central India we have 9 species of the
birds which come under this category
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White-backed Vulture Gyps bengalensis
• This species is widely
distributed in India
•
Till late 1990 it was in
abundant but declined rapidly
• Cause – veterinary use of
diclofenac for livestock
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Long-billed Vulture Gyps indicus
• This species is also widely
distributed in India
• Like White-backed Vultures their
population declined rapidly after
1990
• Cause – veterinary use of
diclofenac for cattle
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Jerdon's Courser Rhinptilus bitorquatus
• This is endemic bird found in southeastern Andhra Pradesh. Earlier
known from few places in Central
India from Godavari River basin.
• Habitat specialist bird found only in
scrub forest
• Threats – habitat destruction because
of human activities
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Forest Owlet Heteroglaux blewitti
• This bird is endemic to Satpuda Mountains
known from only from six places in Central
India. Because of the Forest Owlet, the
Central Indian Forests come under Endemic
Bird Area
• Only found in dry deciduous forests
• Threats – habitat destruction for fuel wood,
illicit wood cutting, overgrazing and direct
persecution by tribal
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Endangered
• We have 12 bird species which come under
this category
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Great Indian Bustard Ardeotis nigriceps
• Historically spread all over Indian
subcontinent. Now restricted to only
a few places in Rajasthan,
Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
• Habitat specialist birds representative
of Grassland
• Threats – expansion of agriculture,
habitat fragmentation, overgrazing,
pesticides and hunting
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Vulnerable
• We have 59 species which come under this
category
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Spot-billed Pelican Pelecanus philippensis
• The species found all over
India in large wetlands
• The population is declining
very fast
• Threats – destruction of
nesting habitat, drainage and
pollution of wetlands and
dearth of food
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Sarus Crane Grus antigone
• Historically widespread all over
south Asia and Australia. Now
declining all over its range
• Threats - primarily threatened
by a combination of habitat loss
and modification (owing
primarily to agricultural
expansion), pollution and
persecution
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Near Threatened
• We have 58 species which fall under this
category
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Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala
• Widespread and locally common
resident in South east Asia
• It frequents freshwater marshes,
lakes and reservoirs, flooded
fields, paddy fields, freshwater
swamp forests, riverbanks,
intertidal mudflats and saltpans
• Threats - habitat loss,
disturbance, pollution and
hunting of adults and collection
of eggs and nestlings from
colonies is cause for concern
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Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor
• Found only in Asia and African
Continent
• Every year 10% population
decline is observed in Africa. It
breeds in Little Run of Katch in
Gujarat
• After breeding, disperse over
Indian Subcontinent
• Threats – water pollution,
disturbance to nesting sites and
habitat destruction
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