BirdLife International is a global NGO with the mission of conserving birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people toward sustainability in the use of natural resources. They are a global family of over 115 national Partners covering all continents, landscapes and seascapes. The Indian partner is the Bombay Natural History Society.
With regional offices in Accra, Amman, Brussels, Cambridge, Dakar, Nairobi, Singapore, Suva, Tokyo, and Quito, they are the largest international partnership for nature conservation. They have over 13 million individual members and supporters, and unify over 100 nature conservation organizations from across the planet. Their network of over 2 million birders, scientists and local volunteers helps them to track, follow, analyse, conserve and understand every bird species in the world. BirdLife International is the official IUCN Red List Authority for birds, responsible for assessing and documenting the global extinction risk of all 11,000+ species for the IUCN Red List.
BirdLife’s long-running State of the World’s Birds series brings together and effectively communicates the latest scientific research on the state of the planet, the pressures on nature, and the solutions needed to conserve species and habitats.
The State of the World’s Birds: 2022 Annual Update summarises and profiles some of the key developments in bird science and conservation over the last year. Since the last comprehensive edition of State of the World’s Birds was published in 2018, knowledge and evidence has continued to accumulate about the changing conservation status and trends of the world’s birds, the threats causing birds to decline, and the conservation actions being taken to improve their status.
The Table below shows the state of bird species according to the 2022 Update.
IUCN Category | No of Species | Change from 2020 Update |
Extinct (EX) | 159 | |
Extinct in the Wild (EW) | 5 | |
Critically Endangered (CR) | 225 | +2 |
Endangered (EN) | 447 | -13 |
Vulnerable (VU) | 773 | -25 |
Near Threatened (NT) | 1010 | +9 |
Least Concern (LC) | 8493 | +33 |
Data Deficient (DD) | 50 | -2 |
Thus, 1445 bird species (CR+EN+NT) are globally threatened.
Analysis of data from BirdLife’s latest species assessments for the IUCN Red List shows that the threats affecting the greatest number of the world’s threatened bird species are (in descending order) agriculture, logging, hunting and trapping, invasive alien species, residential and commercial development, and fire and fire suppression. These same threats also emerge highly from monitoring of Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) by the BirdLife Partnership.
During implementation of the 2013-2020 BirdLife Strategy, 726 globally threatened bird species (46%) directly benefitted from the work of the BirdLife Partnership. These include European Turtle-dove Streptopelia turtur, a focus for 35 BirdLife Partners; 13 species of albatross, which have benefitted from the BirdLife International Marine Programme; and 15 Critically Endangered species that have been studied by PhD students supervised by BirdLife staff.
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