Natural History Wanderings

ScienceDaily reports

The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity — a measure of the range of different roles and functions that birds undertake within the environment — and resulted in the loss of approximately 3 billion years of unique evolutionary history, according to a new study.

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