Birds|The International Union for Conservation of Nature only declared the species threatened in the 1980s.
in Africa, The wading bird Kaitanokkakuovi, which was found in Europe and Asia, has become extinct, according to a recent report in the study.
According to the study, the Kaitanokkakuovi is globally extinct with a probability of 96 percent, which means the extinction of the species according to the threat classification of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The study, published in the British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) scientific journal Ibis on Monday, has been carried out by researchers from, among others, Birdlife International and the British nature conservation organization RSPB.
RSPB:n bulletin according to this, it is the first time in statistical history that a bird species that lived in the continental areas of the Western Palearctic region is declared extinct.
The Palearctic region is a zoogeographic region, the western part of which includes all of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and part of the Middle East.
Last the confirmed sighting of the shrike was made in 1995. In the study, it is estimated that the species probably died out shortly after the last confirmed sighting.
The wader species that bred in Siberia had been found in an area stretching from Central Asia to the northwest coast of Africa and from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and the Mediterranean Sea.
According to the study, the number of woodpeckers has been estimated to have decreased throughout the last century, but the International Union for Conservation of Nature only declared the species threatened in the 1980s. After the 1994 threat classification reform, Kaitanokkakuovi was defined in the highest threat category, i.e. extremely endangered.