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THREATS TO BIRDS - THREATS TO BIRD’S OF AGRICULTURAL ZONE

Agriculture species are declining more than woodland species. Pesticides, toxic chemical and heavy metals such as lead and mercury cause significant bird mortality and reduce breeding success. The use of poisons to control pests or for persecuting predators is a sad relict and great threatened to birds. The US applies approximately five billion pounds of pesticides annually. A Pesticides poisoning database documents more than 2,500 incidents including 113 pesticides implicated in the death of more than 400,000 birds. Carbofuran has been responsible for more than 20% of all incidents and the death of more than 40,000 birds. Increase and decrease of land during cultivation influences the avian habitat degradation rate. The farmers are often converted unproductive land into intensive production to get more profitable crops such as vegetables, olives or vineyards which leave little space for the original diversity of organisms living in the typical traditional farm mosaic with increased use of agrochemicals and complete shift of crops and land uses. Locate barns and other infrastructure along the edges of fields to minimize habitat fragmentation. According to conservative estimated 25 million of the number of native birds killed by predators each year. Threatened species population as well as other native forest dwellers in the targeted host spots needs protection from predators. The captures of wild birds as pets are serious threats to birds.