Trapping Rates
The World Conservation Monitoring Center indicates that the EU imported approximately a million birds per year from 2000-2003.

These are only the CITES listed species, and we conservatively estimate a similar number of non-CITES birds are imported.

Although non-CITES numbers are not tracked by the EU, we deem this figure conservative based on birds available in major exporting countries and on the ratio of CITES:non-CITES birds in trade.

Finally, mortality rates vary a great deal, but for this purpose we set the figure at a relatively conservative 50%. Thus, the per year calculation is as follows:

[(1 million CITES) + (1 million non-CITES)] x 2 for mortalities =
4 million birds per year trapped for the EU market.

This figure corresponds to a bird taken from the wild roughly every 8 seconds.