Three quarters of bird species may disappear completely

Three quarters of bird species in Europe, may disappear completely by the end of the twenty-first century due to climate change. To such conclusion scientists from the British University city Durham, published the "Climate Atlas of European birds", reported Italian news Agency ANSA. The researchers analyzed the condition of the 431 species of birds on the continent, and predicted prospects for changes in their numbers in the context of global warming. According to experts, the main problem facing birds in the near future, will be searching suitable habitat. At the end of the century is expected to move the area all the European birds in 550 km to the North-East, resulting in the living space of each bird separately would be reduced by more than half. The greatest threat today is subject to the falcons and several species of ducks, specialists say. The world of birds of Italy consists of about 300 species, including eagles, vultures, partridges, quails and others. According to the Italian center of ornithological studies, now in the Apennine Peninsula 157 bird species in need of protection and in varying degrees, at risk of extinction. Some of them are protected by European laws.


Expert commentary ECOportal.ru: "currently, there is intense alteration of the ranges of many species of birds. Therefore, in recent decades both in Europe and in Russia is the expansion of areas. Examples of such species can be collared dove, black Redstart, zelenushka and a number of other species." Indeed, in conditions of limited natural systems the main reason for the disappearance of birds from areas is the lack of nesting and foraging. Primarily this affects the types linked to reservoirs and open spaces, to a lesser extent species in the shrub-tree complex. But some species began to adapt to life in the cities next to the man. The processes of urbanization and synanthropization birds. So, the common Kestrel and the Sparrowhawk, yellow-legged gull nest on the roofs or in niches of high-rise buildings. To map the diversity of birds of Italy and Russia is such an example. In the southern Federal district over the past 100 years marked 402 species of birds, in the city of Rostov-on-don — 311 species.


"Of course, the threat of extinction of species of birds every year becomes more and more actual in connection with the active development of new natural areas. Unfortunately, there are cases of reduction and withdrawal of protected areas, which, until recently, habitats of many rare species of flora and fauna. In terms of modern economic relations that emerged in Russia, environmental issues receded into the background, so it is likely that the lists of species included in the Red books of different rank will rise, if not there will be a special, existing laws and Programmes for the conservation of species and ecosystems as a whole", — the expert — C.b.N. Sawicki Ramiz Mamedovich.