Study: 610 Kinds of Birds Have Disappeared in Past 130,000 Years — VOA Learning English
Topics: наука й природа
Beginning
New research says that 610 bird species have died off over the past 130,000 years.
For instance, the Kaua’i ’ō’ō, a Hawaiian songbird, was declared extinct just last year.
The recent research also suggested that an “ongoing biodiversity crisis” that requires urgent study is taking place.
Bird species have a special purpose within the environment. When a bird species disappears, nothing remains to do its job, suggested Tom Matthews of the University of Birmingham in England. Matthews was the lead writer of the study that appeared recently in the publication Science.
Matthews said that birds do many important jobs in an environment. These jobs include spreading seeds, eating insects, or reusing…
Tap any word for its translation at once; the word goes into your deck together with its sentence.