Nigeria Ranks 34th Globally In 2020 Migratory Bird Sightings

As conservationists and researchers took part in sighting birds to represent their countries in 2020, Nigeria recorded 283 out of 7107 species.

The competition which was organized by ebird brought more than 32,000 ebirders from countries around the world - from Africa to Asia, Europe to South America to enjoy birds for October big day.

More than 460 ebirders were in Africa, 1800 in Asia, 2300 in Europe and 3900 in South America.

In a landmark report released on 17th October, 2020 by ebird, Nigeria ranked 34th while Columbia ranked 1st for number of bird species sighted.

The ranking is based on the total number of sighted bird species submitted to ebird online database.

The report, October Big Day, includes a new global recordings of 168 countries, comparing the number of bird species sighted in a single day. Nigeria's position is below that of other African countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Kenya ranked first in Africa but sixth globally with 817 species of migratory birds. Tanzania came second followed by Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.

The report brings to light the threat of climate change, ecological degradation, and exploitative exotic pet myhts that deceives wealthier consumers to purchase birds to areas with greater economic prosperity.

This demonstrates how far Nigeria needs to go in ensuring that birds in the country are protected.

While countries with the lowest number of birds sighted still needs to do more to protect the environment where these birds live, excessive carbon emissions - disproportionately from wealthy countries - will continue to threaten the habitats of all birds except urgent measures are put in place to curb the menace.

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