The total number of birds considered threatened with extinction is now a staggering 1,210 according to BirdLife International. This was revealed last week by the global authority on birds in its annual evaluation of how the world’s bird species are faring.

However, it is not all bad news: the Seychelles Fody or toktok in Creole, a small yellowish songbird, has been downlisted  from Vulnerable to the Near Threatened category. This effectively removes it from BirdLife’s Globally Threatened Birds listing which highlights the extinction risk of birds using three categories, Critically Endangered, Endangered, and Vulnerable.