The article reports that the medium tree finch bird, a native to the Galapagos Islands, was included in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of endangered species for 2009. Most animals in the list are imperiled by habitat loss. The finch, however, was endangered by...
The brilliantredplumage on many bird species isn't just pretty; it has a purpose. Male House Finches with brightredcoloring, for example, more easily attract mates. Below is the list of 16 most beautiful Redbird names and pictures. Northern Cardinal: The color of a bird’s plumage is cr...
. Our findings support existing non-spatial assessments5and policy syntheses4. There are sizeable continental areas in which there was a greater than 50% chance that any given amphibian, mammal or bird species was threatened by logging, hunting and trapping, agriculture, invasive species or climate...
The remaining 23 species were classified as Least Concern. Using coarse instead of fine grain grid cells would have classified ten species in a lower Red List category. Compared with the previous Red List, nine species were classified in a lower and 12 in a higher threat category. In total,...
A.The decline of widespread birds is not worrying for the UK. B.The UK has got some practical experience of bird conservation. C.Changes in farming practices contribute to the increase of rare birds. D.Half of common birds have decreased in the past ten years in the UK. 2. We can lea...
Evidence of isolation by social behaviour has been suggested in bird species with complex societies, including cooperative breeding and lekking mating systems7,71. A combination of strong natal philopatry, close bonds among group members sharing social identity, within-group reproductive skew and kin-...
from conservation group Bird Life is the latest critical survey that highlight the scale of the current biodiversity crisis.It says,more than half the world's bird species are in decline,as human activities including agriculture and expansion into habitats continue to wreak...
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Zhao Shiwei is a staff member of the crane breeding and protection station in Liaohekou National Nature Reserve. He graduated from college in 1993 and started to work at the nature reserve in Panjin City, which sits along a primary bird migration corridor, welcoming a myriad of wild migratory...
Through the exemple of red lists of threatened species, we show that indicators with the potential to connect and disconnect science and policy are the most useful ones, strategically. • The double-edge purpose of indicators, at the same time informative and evaluative, enables operators to lea...