One of the Critically Endangered birds The Northern Bald Ibis

The Northern Bald Ibis population has decreased with time. until it hasreached a small population, the only wild population located in one small place in Morocco. It was classified as Critically Endangered according to the IUCN red list and other organization such as CITIES and the convention on Migratory Species.

The Northern Bald Ibis is already extinct in the wild in Europe and Asia. It remained in 38 small colonies in Morocco, but now there only one in Souss-Massa National Park where there about 113 pairs nested andproduced about 148 young Northern Bald Ibis. In Algeria, the last colonieswent extinxt in 1980's.

The causes behind its extinction still unknow but the most supposed causes are the spread of illegal buildings close to their cliff habitats, thespraying of toxic chemicals used on farms, and spraying poisons, (such as DDT), for killing mosquitos.

The few Northern Bald Ibis found in Syria hare faced with illegal hunting and deforestation, as the trees are cut for heating in winters. The population in captivity in Turkey is about 75. In summer, they are allowedfree to migrate and breed, but about 15 of the females never return.  According to all of this, the danger of extinction to this incredible eagle is so high.

The Northern Bald Ibis was once widespread across the Middle East, northern Africa, and southern and central Europe, it bred along the Danube and Rhone Rivers, and in the mountains of Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is extinct over most of its former range, and now almost the entirety of the wild breeding population is in Morocco

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