Is Monitoring Alone Saving the Critically Endangered Gyps indicus in the Ramadevarabetta Vulture Bird Sanctuary of Karnataka, India?
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Birds are very specific to their respective habitats and are also the key indicators of the environment being susceptible to any change in the habitat or variation in the environment. Vultures play a key role in the wider landscape as providers of ecosystem services, and constitute the habitat’s optimal natural animal disposal system, processing carcasses even in cities. Among the various species of vulture birds, Gyps indicus (Scopoli 1786), commonly called as Indian vulture or Long-billed vulture, is practically found throughout the country, and also seen in the urban landscapes of the Bengaluru region. Gyps indicus breeds in southeast Pakistan and peninsular India, south of the Gangetic plain, north to Delhi, east through Madhya Pradesh, south to the Nilgiris, and occasionally further south. Alarmingly, their numbers are reducing, the present study is focusing on the monitoring for their conservation, and an attempt has been made to predict how to increase their numbers.
Author: Somashekara Rajashekara
Institution: Bangalore University
Language: English
Topic: Avian ecology and behavior
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410219678