Sep. 11,
2018 01:16PM EST
Grim news
for the world's raptors—an iconic group of birds consisting of hawks, falcons,
kites, eagles, vultures and owls.
After
analyzing the status of all 557 raptor species, biologists discovered that 18
percent of these birds are threatened with extinction and 52 percent have
declining global populations, making them more threatened than all birds as a
whole.
Comparatively,
40 percent of the world's 11,000 bird species are in decline, according to an
April report from BirdLife International.
The
new research, published last week in the
journal Biological Conservation, was led by biologists at The
Peregrine Fund and in collaboration with nine scientific
organizations and is the first to focus specifically on the status of raptors,
according to Stuart Butchart chief scientist at BirdLife International and
one of the paper's coauthors.
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