Number of migratory birds lost to hunting and trapping in the Mediterranean countries each year

Value 1e+9 birds/year
Organism Biosphere
Reference Kevin J. Gaston & Tim M. Blackburn, How many birds are there? Biodiversity & Conservation, April 1997, Volume 6, Issue 4, pp 615–625 p.623 2nd paragraph
Primary Source Magnin, G. (1991) Hunting and persecution of migratory birds in the Mediterranean region. In Conserving Migratory Birds (T. Salathe, ed.), pp. 63-75. Cambridge: International Council for Bird Preservation.
Method Abstract: "Here, [investigators] use a variety of methods to estimate the global number of individuals for a single taxon, birds."
Comments P.623 2nd paragraph: "Such figures can be compared with estimated losses to a variety of other sources, although their accuracy is not readily determined: 1000 million migratory birds each year to hunting and trapping in the Mediterranean countries (primary source), between 97.6 and 975.6 million birds each year to window strikes in the USA (Klem, 1990), 1.25 million birds to strikes at communication towers and 57.2 million to road kills each year in the USA (Banks, 1979), and 80 million or 319 to 638 million per year to predation by domestic cats in the USA (BNID 116947). The annual trade in live wild birds is estimated to have been between 2 and 5 million in the 1980s (Thomsen et al., 1992)."
Entered by Uri M
ID 116946