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ENV -> Endangered birds

Tuesday, November 19 2019, 4:29 PM

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED

Jerdon's Courser endemic to Andhra nocturnal

Pradesh falgship species of scrub jungle
found only in AP considered to be extinct until it was
habitat - scrub rediscovered in 1986 (that area
forests became Sri
Lankamaleswara Wildlife
Sanctuary)
Threats - dryland farming,
plantations of exotic trees, Telugu
Ganga canal, trapping birds etc.

Forest Owlet Dry decidous forest lost for one century

MP, MH Salim ali (bird scientist) launched a
search - 1997 found again
Threats: tree logging

White-bellied Assam, Arunachal inherently rare

Heron some in Bhutan,
Myanmar
Habitat: Rivers with
sand or gravel bars
or inland lakes

Vultures (3/9 across India their decline -> rabies and anthrax
species) - WSLR diclofenac
1. White-backed
Vulture
2. Slender-billed
Vulture
3. Long-billed
Vulture
4. Red headed

Bengal Florican grasslands (w mating dance

scrublands) threat - agri
only 3 countries -
 Cambodia, India
and Nepal
 in india - UP, Assam,
Arunachal
bustard species
native to the Indian
subcontinent,
Cambodia and
Vietnam

Great Indian RJ, GJ, parts of State bird of RJ aka Godawan

Bustard Peninsular india RJ govt. formulated plan with
(grasslands). ONLY Wildlife Insti of India to save them.
6 states - RJ, GJ, Endemic to Pohran and Jaisalmer -
MP, MH, AP, KN damage during nuclear tests
Avoids irrigated (endemic to Indian sub continent)
areas
Appendix 1 CITES,
Schedule 1 WPA,
CMS/Bonn
Convention

Himalayan Quail only 2 locations - hard to detect since reluctant to fly

Uttarakhand, NW indiscriminate hunting during colonial
himalayas times (not found since 19th C)
dense grass
habitats, high
altitudes

Pink- headed Duck North East India males have pink head and neck
Overgrown still-water
pools
Marshes and
swamps in lowland
forests

Sociable Lapwing Fallow fields, Scrub winter migrant to india

desert
Central Asia,
Pakistan
Northern and NW
India

Spoon Billed Chukotsk peninsula winter migrant

Sandpiper Southwards to the
isthmus of the
Kamchatka
peninsula
North-eastern Russia
 in coastal areas in
India

Siberian Crane Keoladeo National pesticide pollution

Park winter migrant
winters in wetlands

ENDANGERED

1. Narcondam hornbill: endemic to the Indian island of Narcondam in the Andaman

NEAR THREATENED (NOW VULNERABLE)

Great Indian Hornbill

State bird of both Kerala and Arunachal
largest and heaviest hornbill species in India
Great pied hornbill, concave-casqued hornbill or great hornbill, etc., are the alternative names of this large bird.
In Nepali, they are called 'Homrai‘, meaning 'king of the forest‘.
found along Western Ghats and in the forests along the Himalayas. Their distribution extends into
Nepal,  Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya, and Sumatra.
non-migrant, resident bird
Natural habitat - Western Ghats (as per UPSC)

  

SARUS CRANE
large non-migratory crane and India’s only resident breeding crane and the
world’s tallest flying bird.
State bird of UP
Wetalnds
 (Aus, India, SEA)