More than 500 bird species face EXTINCTION in the next 100 years due to climate change, experts say
From the bare-necked umbrellabird to the helmeted hornbill, birds come in all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes and sizes.
But hundreds of species could go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers have found.
A new study predicts that climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to disappear in the next century.
Presumably at least one of the researchers aims to check this finding in the year 2125. Or maybe the responsibility is passed down the generations like an heirloom. Or heirloon perhaps.
It's a pity pigeons aren't included though. I'm thinking of those which crap on our brand new garage roof while making a survey of the garden.
5 comments:
" could ". A word that does a lot of work.
If the number of wind turbines continue increasing at the same rate as in the last ten years then the golden eagle could be extinct in the next hundred years.
If Earth is hit by an asteroid.........
If the overdue slip of the San Andreas fault were to occur.........
If the Yellowstone Super Volcano were to errupt...........
If the UK Civil Service continues to grow exponentially as it has over the last 200 years.......
And magpies and seagulls. But not owls nor herons; nor woodpeckers - at least not the one that comes to dig little irrigation holes in our lawn. The Gardener's Friend.
Hadeda Ibis, good riddance!
Considering the greenies are saying that dangerous climate change had been happening for some years and I observe that there is a mushrooming of some bird species in that time, that 'habitat loss' isn't a factor for them, I wonder how these 'climate experts' can forecast such a thing. To which species, in what part of the world, are they referring?
Doonhamer - yes, "could" is one of the most overworked words in journalism and unfortunately in popular science too.
dearieme - in our lawn starlings drill lots of little holes when they go after leatherjackets.
Anon - I'd never heard of the Hadeda Ibis before. Evil looking beaks.
Tammly - yes it's very dubious. Sounds much more like guesswork than forecasting, guesswork which will never be checked.
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