Saturday, August 20, 2005
Musings of the Day ...
As I lay around in the warmest place on earth ....(no not home ..for i have been out of that for 6 years ...not even my room ...where i lie down only to sleep ..but my cubicle at OFFICE ...)..and yet another week end to kill ...I return back to my adolescence and enjoy the
BIRD WATCHING
If one looks into history ,facts about birds ...itz clear that some species of birds like Passenger Pigeon which were once the most numerous numerous bird on planet has been wiped out from the world .Same with Dodo and more than 128 more species .....
Countries like Indonesia and Brazil ,once the home to rare species of birds have become the endangerment capital of the world .
Here are some more Highlights
- There are over 9,900 known species of birds. Since 1500 A.D., 128 have become extinct, plus a further 22 species that must be considered hypothetical. 103 species have become extinct since 1800 A.D.
- One in eight of the remaining species, 1,183 bird species (or 12%), have a real risk of becoming extinct in the next 100 years.
- 182 species are Critical, meaning that they have only a 50% chance of surviving over the next 10 years (or three generations).
- 321 species are considered Endangered, meaning that they have only a 20% chance of surviving the next 20 years (or five generations).
- 680 species are considered Vulnerable, meaning that the probability of extinction in the wild is greater than 10% in the next 100 years.
- An additional 727 species are Near-Threatened, meaning they do not quite meet the criteria for the previous three categories
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