10 percent of birds will be extinct by 2100 :

World News > Washington, Dec 14 : A new futuristic study by researchers at the University of Stanford is predicting that by the time the next century rolls around, a number of bird species that we take for granted today will become mere pictures in bird books, as a whopping 10 percent of all bird species face extinction by the year 2100.

Their study showed that the main causes of this loss in bird population would be habitat loss, disease, climate change, competition from introduced species and exploitation for food or the pet trade.

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