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    The document summarizes the status and threats facing several endangered bird species in India. It lists several species as critically endangered, including Jerdon's Courser which was considered extinct until rediscovered in 1986, and the Forest Owlet which was lost for over a century before being rediscovered in 1997. Other critically endangered species mentioned are the White-bellied Heron, three species of vultures, the Bengal Florican, and the Great Indian Bustard. The document also lists the Narcondam Hornbill as endangered, and gives details about the Great Indian Hornbill and Sarus Crane which are now considered near threatened but were previously vulnerable.

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    The document summarizes the status and threats facing several endangered bird species in India. It lists several species as critically endangered, including Jerdon's Courser which was considered extinct until rediscovered in 1986, and the Forest Owlet which was lost for over a century before being rediscovered in 1997. Other critically endangered species mentioned are the White-bellied Heron, three species of vultures, the Bengal Florican, and the Great Indian Bustard. The document also lists the Narcondam Hornbill as endangered, and gives details about the Great Indian Hornbill and Sarus Crane which are now considered near threatened but were previously vulnerable.

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    The document summarizes the status and threats facing several endangered bird species in India. It lists several species as critically endangered, including Jerdon's Courser which was considered extinct until rediscovered in 1986, and the Forest Owlet which was lost for over a century before being rediscovered in 1997. Other critically endangered species mentioned are the White-bellied Heron, three species of vultures, the Bengal Florican, and the Great Indian Bustard. The document also lists the Narcondam Hornbill as endangered, and gives details about the Great Indian Hornbill and Sarus Crane which are now considered near threatened but were previously vulnerable.

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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)

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