MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Three bird species in Russia are in a disastrous decline and on the verge of extinction, the president of the country's Bird Protection Union said.
The most serious losses in the species -- the slender-billed curlew, the spoon-billed sandpiper and the golden bunting -- occur while the migrating birds are in transit, especially in winter, Vitaly Zubakin told RIA Novosti Thursday.