78 species of birds are found only in India: Report
The Hindu
A study by ZSI has revealed that there are as many as 78 bird species which are found only in India.
A study by ZSI has revealed that there are as many as 78 bird species which are found only in India.
There is a rich diversity of 10,906 bird species in the world, and of them, India is home to 1,353, Zoological Survey of India scientist Amitava Majumder said.
These 1,353 bird species account for 12.4%of the global avian diversity, he said.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) categorisation, 25 of the 78 bird species, which are found only in India, are classified as 'threatened', the scientist said.
"Seventy-eight bird species are found only in the country's geographical region. On the occasion of the 75th Independence year, we have focussed on 75 such species in the book, '75 Endemic Birds of India'," Mr. Majumder told PTI.
These selected winged species exhibit "remarkable distribution patterns" across various regions of the country, he said.
Twenty-eight bird species are restricted to the Western Ghats, 25 to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, four to the Eastern Himalayas and one each to the Southern Deccan plateau and Central Indian Forest, the scientist said.
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