Common roller on the verge of extinction: Throughout the country the number of rollers, a once common bird, fell in recent years to only about five breeding pairs. This means a roller coaster is likely to happen soon will completely disappear from Poland. The Siwka is one of the most beautifully colored Polish birds and is still several dozen years old ago was common throughout the country. Unfortunately, as Professor Piotr Tryjanowski, an ornithologist from the University of Life Sciences in Poznań, says, due to the disappearance of traditional agriculture, the fate of the roller in Poland seems to be sealed.
An ornithologist about the greyhound: “A beautiful, fabulously colorful bird. There used to be several hundred pairs of it in Polandsome even estimate several thousand. He liked places where cattle, horses and sheep grazed. We have fewer and fewer such places, so the roller is extinct,” said Professor Piotr Tryjanowski. The ornithologist emphasizes that currently such a small number of these birds nest in Poland that it is too late to attempt to save the domestic population.
The common roller population can be restored: In the future, it should be possible to restore this species, especially since similar programs are successfully carried out in some European countries. “We are witnessing the extinction of this species in Poland. However, they are in France, in… Switzerland or even in Serbia programs involving the restoration of certain habitats and the roller is returning there” – says Piotr Tryjanowski.
This is why some bird species are becoming extinct: The Kraska is not the only native species whose numbers in Poland have decreased dramatically in recent years. Because of disappearance of traditional agriculturelarks and ortolans are rapidly disappearing from fields and meadows, and the Poland black grouse population. There are also fewer and fewer greenfinches and goldfinches being observed throughout the country fall victim to diseases. Climate change, longer droughts and higher temperatures also have an impact on the bird population.
This is how climate change affects the lives of birds: Currently, there is a lot of confusion in the domestic environment, because some birds stopped flying to their wintering grounds and spends the winter in the country. These include cranes and geese. Climate change also favors some species that once occurred sporadically in Poland. The most colorful example here is the bee-eater, also called the bee-eater, whose number – especially in the south of the country – has been growing exceptionally quickly in recent years.
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Source: IAR