{"id":255122,"date":"2023-08-07T20:09:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=255122"},"modified":"2023-08-07T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:39:30","slug":"5-of-birds-in-india-are-endemic-says-zoological-survey-of-india-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/5-of-birds-in-india-are-endemic-says-zoological-survey-of-india-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"5% of birds in India are endemic, says Zoological Survey of India publication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c5% of birds in India are endemic, says Zoological Survey of India publication\u201d\u00a0 <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu on 7th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has released a publication titled \u201c<\/span>75 Endemic Birds of India<\/i><\/b>\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n

What are the key highlights from the publication \u201c<\/b>75 Endemic Birds of India<\/i><\/b>\u201d?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Endemic birds<\/b>: India is home to 1,353 bird species, which represents approximately 12.40% of global bird diversity. Out of these bird species, 78 (5%) are endemic to the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The highest number of endemic species <\/b>have been recorded in the <\/span>Western Ghats,<\/b> with\u00a0<\/span>28 bird species.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Some of the species recorded in the Western Ghats are the Malabar Grey Hornbill, Malabar Parakeet, Ashambu Laughing Thrush and White-bellied Sholakili.<\/span><\/p>\n

Endemic bird species not sighted in last few decades: <\/b>Of the 78 species, three species have not been recorded in the last few decades.They are:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/span>Manipur Bush Quail <\/b>(Perdicula manipurensis), listed as \u2018Endangered\u2019 in IUCN Red List with its last recorded sighting in 1907;<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0 <\/span>Himalayan Quail <\/b>(Ophrysia superciliosa), listed as \u2018Critically Endangered\u2019 with its last recorded sighting in 1876 and<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0 <\/span>Jerdon\u2019s Courser<\/b> (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus), listed as \u2018Critically Endangered\u2019 with its last confirmed sighting in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

Threatened Endemic Bird species of India: <\/b>Of the 78 endemic species, 25 are classified as \u2018Threatened\u2019 by the IUCN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Three species (Bugun Liocichla or Liocichla bugunorum; Himalayan Quail or Ophrysia Superciliosa and Jerdon\u2019s Courser or Rhinoptilus bitorquatus) are listed as \u2018Critically\u00a0<\/span>Endangered\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Five of the endemic birds are categorized as \u2018Endangered\u2019, and 17 as \u2018Vulnerable\u2019, while 11 are categorized as \u2018Near Threatened\u2019 on the IUCN Red List.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201c5% of birds in India are endemic, says Zoological Survey of India publication\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 7th August 2023. What is the News? Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has released a publication titled \u201c75 Endemic Birds of India\u201d. What are the key highlights from the… Continue reading 5% of birds in India are endemic, says Zoological Survey of India publication<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9,11834],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-255122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","category-species-in-news","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}