More than a quarter of UK birds face extinction risk or steep decline – study

Red list entries swell to 67 species as conservationists call for urgent action to save birds of Britain including warblers, curlews and puffinsMore than a quarter of UK birds, including the puffin, nightingale and curlew, require urgent conservation efforts to ensure their survival, according to a new report on the state of the UK’s birds.Since the last review in 2009, an additional 15 species of bird have been placed on the “red list”, a category that indicates a species is i