Indonesia has more endemic birds than any other country. Indonesia's size, tropical climate, and archipelagic geography, support the world's second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil).[1]

Most endemic birds are in the Wallacea region of eastern Indonesia. Sulawesi supports twelve endemic bird genera. Of all Indonesian endemic birds, about sixty-one species are threatened: thirty-seven species are listed as vulnerable, twenty-three are endangered and eleven species are listed as critical on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Conservation status

NE = not evaluated NT = near threatened CR = critical
DD = data deficient VU = vulnerable EW = extinct in the wild
LC = least concern EN = endangered EX = extinct

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Lester, Brown, R (1997). State of the World 1997: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society (14th ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 7. ISBN 0-393-04008-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

References

  • Birdlife International, The World List of Threatened Birds, ISBN 1-56098-528-3
  • Birdlife International, Endemic Bird Areas of the World, ISBN 1-56098-574-7
  • Morten Strange, A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Indonesia, ISBN 0-691-11495-1
  • Periplus Action Guides, Birding Indonesia, ISBN 962-593-071-X
  • The Howard and Moore, Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, ISBN 0-691-11701-2
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