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The GIB was once common on the dry plains of the Indian subcontinent. But, today there habitat has reduced drastically.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), a global authority on species survival, which categorised the GIBs as “endangered” in 1994, was forced to upgrade the species to the status of “critically endangered” in 2011 because of continued threats faced by this species. In fact it is considered India’s most critically endangered bird.
