Goa, April 7 -- Arti Das

It is stated that Goa which has 0.1 per cent of India's area has 37 per cent of its listed birds as more than 480 species of birds are recorded from Goa. However, the recent research which is compiled in a book titled 'Threatened Birds of Goa-Status of Globally Threatened Birds Reported from Goa' by Pronoy Baidya, Jalmesh Karapurkar, and Sujeetkumar Dongre, states that around 56 species of birds are threatened.

The book is a scientific summarisation of globally threatened species of birds that have been reported from the state of Goa. It depends on global information available in scientific literature, interpretation of historical information derived from more than 40 years of Heinz Lainer's birding notes, and c...