20 PER CENT OF EUROPEAN BIRD SPECIES NOW THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION SAYS NEW REPORT

ONE in three bird species in Europe has declined over the past decade and one in five is threatened with extinction.

That is the alarming finding of the European Red List of Birds published this month by BirdLife International.

It states: "Seabirds, wildfowl, waders and raptors are the most threatened and fasted group declining group, but the majority of larks, buntings and shrikes are also declining.

"Marine habitats, farmland, wetland and grassland are the habitats with most declining species"

Says  Anna Staneva, interim head of conservation  at BirdLife Europe: "Birds have been on this planet for longer than we have, but, at the speed humans are exploiting and destroying, we are seeing some species plummeting towards extinction."

The full report is at:

https://www.birdlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BirdLife-European-Red-List-of-Birds-2021.pdf