decline of Europe's farmland birds

Gestart door redmar_woudstra, december 28, 2007, 23:44:15 PM

Vorige topic - Volgende topic

redmar_woudstra

http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2007/12/commonbird.html

CiteerThe report The State of Europe's Common Birds 2007 states the following ten species that have shown the greatest declines in Europe between 1980 and 2005 are:

          o Crested Lark Galerida cristata (95 per cent decline)
          o Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor (81 per cent decline)
          o Grey Partridge (79 per cent decline)
          o Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla (74 per cent decline)
          o Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe (70 per cent decline)
          o Common Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos (63 per cent decline)
          o European Turtle-dove (62 per cent decline)
          o Willow Tit Parus montanus (58 per cent decline)
          o Northern Lapwing (51 per cent decline)
          o European Serin Serinus serinus (41 per cent decline)

CiteerAcross Europe, the species that have shown the greatest increases in Europe between 1980 and 2005 are:

    * Hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes (658 per cent increase)
    * Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis (182 per cent increase)
    * Common Raven Corvus corax (118 per cent increase)
    * Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla (82 per cent increase)
    * Common Buzzard Buteo buteo (80 per cent increase)
    * Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius (77 per cent increase)
    * Common Wood-pigeon Columba palumbus (71 per cent increase)
    * Eurasian Collared-dove Streptopelia decaocto (59 per cent increase)
    * Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita (56 per cent increase)
    * Eurasian Green Woodpecker Picus viridis (43 per cent increase)
groet,
Redmar