Birds

As per available reports about 52 Open Access Articles, 182 Conference Proceedings, 58 National symposiums and 4 Upcoming Conferences are presently dedicated exclusively to Birds and about  , are being published on Birds.

Birds (class Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds have more or less developed wings; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Wings are evolved forelimbs, and most bird species can fly. Flightless birds include ratites, penguins, and diverse endemic island species. Some species of birds, particularly penguins and members of the duck family, are adapted for swimming. Birds also have digestive and respiratory systems that are uniquely adapted for flight. Several bird species make and use tools, and many social species pass on knowledge across generations, which are considered a form of culture.Birds live and breed in most terrestrial habitats and on all seven continents, reaching their southern extreme in the snow petrel's breeding colonies up to 440 kilometres (270 mi) inland in Antarctica.Birds communicate using primarily visual and auditory signals. Signals can be interspecific (between species) and intraspecific (within species).

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Scope and Global Impact:

Studies on birds have helped develop several key concepts in evolution, behaviour and ecology such as the definition of species, the process of speciation, instinct, learning, ecological niches, guilds, island biogeography, phylogeography and conservation. While early ornithology was principally concerned with descriptions and distributions of species, ornithologists today seek answers to very specific questions, often using birds as models to test hypotheses or predictions based on theories. Most modern biological theories apply across taxonomic groups and the number of professional scientists who identify themselves as "ornithologists" has therefore declined. A wide range of tools and techniques are used in ornithology, both inside the laboratory and out in the field, and innovations are constantly made.Birds benefit when people learn about bird conservation and take action to protect birds and preserve their habitats. Wildlife in general benefits because education that promotes steps to protect birds and their habitats improve living conditions for a wide variety of plants and animals. People benefit because an environment that birds can thrive in is a healthy environment for humans.

The distribution of birds is uneven: the different biogeographic realms vary substantially in terms of the numbers and types of bird species they hold (see map). By far the richest is the Neotropical realm, which holds c.36% of all known landbird species. This is followed by the Afrotropical (21%), Indomalayan (18%), Australasian (17%), and then the Palearctic (10%), Nearctic (8%) and Oceanic (2%) realms. Although they have relatively few species in total, the Pacific islands in the Oceanic region are unusually rich for their size; together they hold 20 times more species per unit area than South America, the richest of the continents (Newton 2003). Country by country, the richest territories for avian diversity are Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador and Indonesia (each with more than 1,500 species), followed by Bolivia, Venezuela, China, India, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Tanzania, Kenya and Argentina (all around 1,000 or more; BirdLife International unpublished data)

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This page was last updated on April 18, 2024