The Sparrows are one of the most common bird in Indian cities and
are known for making their nest around and inside residential places. For few
years they didn't show up, but some time ago they have been spotted. So, they might
be back but could not find friendly place to stay. Although not all birds have same habitat , it might be true for
the other rare species of birds. This article is concerned with suggesting other possible reasons for their rarity.
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| Great Indian Bustard Google Image |
The Great Indian Bustard is one such rare bird or endangered
bird(because of threats) found mostly in Gujarat’s Kutch region. This bird is
having threat from their grassland is converted to agricultural land and other
factors. I wrote to Greenpeace to start a campaign for protection of this magnificent
bird before it has been lost. Let’s see what are the other rare or endangered birds:
There are more than 1000 birds found in India of which more
than 50 are considered to be endangered according to IUCN( International Union for Conservation of Nature
). Here are the list of some of them:
White Winged Wood Duck, Sarus Crane , Pink-headed
Duck (sc name: Rhodonessa caryophyllacea), Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia
superciliosa), Siberian Crane (Grus leucogeranus), and much more. Arkive.org
maintains a list of endangered species.
There are various serious reasons
for their rarity, from environmental to outside intervention. But there might
be other possibilities of their endangerments.
- Real birds are not on Twitter otherwise it would have been known of their problems!
- Concrete jungles don’t make very good habitat for most of the endangered ones.
- Some birds have seasonal habitat, so they might have gone outside India.
- But this election time they might be back! Or show up for voting?
- Some people may not consider them “rare” or “endangered”.
- They are not under control of any authorities, this is good as well as bad.
- Vegetarians don’t know whether they exist or not.
- It might be cumbersome to tackle varieties of birds even for environmentalist. At last tweet about this to make it heard to authorities.Tags: Rare birds, Endangered Birds, India, IUCN, Great Indian Bustard.
