Bird
Great Indian Bustard
Ardeotis nigriceps
On the Rajasthan Board's rare and threatened animals listIUCN: Critically Endangered, A2a+4acd; C1, assessed 2018
Image: Pål A. Olsvik · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 · Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, 19 December 2024 · Resized
What the sources say
- RajasthanThe Board lists it for Desert National Park, Jaisalmer.[1]
- RajasthanAbout 150 birds are left, almost all in India, in five isolated regions. The largest group, 128 birds (standard error 19), lives in a 9,252 square kilometre landscape in the Thar of Rajasthan. The population fell by 75% in 30 years.[5]
- RajasthanThreats named are collisions with power lines, loss of dry grassland to other uses, and nest and chick predation made worse by free-ranging dogs and pigs.[5]
- IndiaThe Wildlife Institute of India describes bustards as flagships of dry grasslands.[5]
Sources
- Rajasthan State Biodiversity Board. List of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Animals of Rajasthan (39 animals, with localities) (government). Official list, published as a PDF.
- Wildlife Institute of India (2020). Conserving Great Indian Bustard Landscapes through Scientific Understanding and Participatory Planning. Final report (government). Five-year project with the Rajasthan Forest Department.
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
The coloured tag before each fact shows where it was verified. A fact checked for India or the world is not assumed to hold for Rajasthan.
