{"id":104,"date":"2021-12-02T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/?p=50715"},"modified":"2021-12-02T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:17:16","slug":"familiar-birds-added-to-revised-uk-red-list","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/familiar-birds-added-to-revised-uk-red-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar birds added to revised UK Red List"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jo Price\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 02 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The latest assessment of the status of the UK\u2019s regularly-occurring bird species, Birds of Conservation Concern<\/em> 5<\/a>, reveals more than one in four species are in serious trouble. Compiled by a coalition of the UK\u2019s leading bird conservation and monitoring organisations, the report assessed each species against a set of objective criteria and assigned it to a Green, Amber or Red List \u2013 indicating an increasing level of conservation concern.<\/p>\n

Seventy species were placed on the Red List of threatened birds, including the house martin, swift, greenfinch and Bewick\u2019s swan, all of which have been added for the first time; 103 were placed on the Amber List and 72 on the Green List.<\/p>\n

The Red List now accounts for 29% of UK bird species, more than ever before (the last report was published in 2015). Most of the species were placed on this list because of their severe declines, having halved in numbers or range in the UK in recent decades. Others remain well below historical levels or are considered under threat of global extinction.<\/p>\n