Collar, N.J. et al. Birds to Watch 2: The World List of Threatened Birds

Title

Birds to Watch 2: The World List of Threatened Birds (BirdLife Conservation Series No. 4): The Official Source for Birds on the IUCN Red List

Author

Collar, N.J., M.J. Crosby & A.J. Stattersfield

Publisher

BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Year

1994

ISBN

0 946888 30 2 (paperback)

Illustrations

graphs and diagrams

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements 5
• Introduction
  • Birds to Watch in context 8
  • The new IUCN criteria 14
  • Trends and factors in the global endangerment of birds 22
• Species Accounts
  • Globally threatened species 28
  • Extinct species 210
  • Conservation dependent species 213
  • Data deficient species 215
  • Near-threatened species 222
• Appendices
  • 1: Species listed by geopolitical unit 243
  • 2: Geopolitical units ranked by number of threatened bird species 342
  • 3: Threatened bird species in the higher threat categories 344
• References 348
• Index 378

Bibliography

References

Index

Index of Species

Pages

407

Categories

birds, threatened species, endangered species, conservation, IUCN

Language

English (en)

My Summary

A very valuable reference work for 1,111 world bird species in several threat categories, including:

• globally threatened species
• extinct species
• conservation-dependent species
• data-deficient species
• near-threatened species

Included are a prediction of future extinctions and an analysis of the most important countries, habitats and threats. The species assessments include distribution, population status and trend, habitats and threats.

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