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North America has lost 3 billion birds in 50 years
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:25 pm
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North America has lost nearly 30 percent of its bird population in the last 50 years
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Slowly, steadily and almost imperceptibly, North America’s bird population is dwindling.
The sparrows and finches that visit backyard feeders number fewer each year. The flutelike song of the western meadowlark — the official bird of six U.S. states — is growing more rare. The continent has lost nearly 3 billion birds representing hundreds of species over the past five decades, in an enormous loss that signals an “overlooked biodiversity crisis,” according to a study from top ornithologists and government agencies.
This is not an extinction crisis — yet. It is a more insidious decline in abundance as humans dramatically alter the landscape: There are 29 percent fewer birds in the United States and Canada today than in 1970, the study concludes. Grassland species have been hardest hit, probably because of agricultural intensification that has engulfed habitats and spread pesticides that kill the insects many birds eat. But the victims include warblers, thrushes, swallows and other familiar birds.
This post was edited on 9/19/19 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:27 pm to LSUDVM1999
it's cause these birds sit on social media all day and don't interact with other birds IRL anymore
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:28 pm to NotoriousFSU
and yet I still have freaking bird crap on my truck windows every morning I go to work.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:28 pm to LSUDVM1999
I’d like to see the methodology of this study. Seems a little shaky.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:28 pm to LSUDVM1999
good to know that the government is cutting down on spying on us
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:30 pm to LSUDVM1999
Windmills, household cats and that stupid Ducks Unlimited.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:30 pm to LSUDVM1999
I’ve contributed to the loss of many dove and robbin.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:33 pm to TigahTeeth
The grackle population is healthy.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:33 pm to Pettifogger
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it's cause these birds sit on social media all day and don't interact with other birds IRL anymore
That's why it's called Tweeting.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:34 pm to LSUDVM1999
Don't mistake this as an improvement for your privacy. Government has much more powerful tech these days than birds, so it makes sense that they would not continue to release as many new birds as the old ones break down and are decommissioned.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:34 pm to LSUDVM1999
We should introduce the Great Tit to the Americas. Maybe then Great Tits will be everywhere.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:35 pm to LSUDVM1999
quote:That's been lost by women for much longer than 50 years.
swallows
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:36 pm to LSUDVM1999
Popeyes spicy chicken sandwich must have something to do with it.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:36 pm to Displaced
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Who Cares?!
I guess we no longer need birds after 1986
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On this day in 1986, a mining tradition dating back to 1911 ended: the use of canaries in coal mines to detect carbon monoxide and other toxic gases before they hurt humans.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:37 pm to LSUDVM1999
Yet my backyard is still full of a-hole crows that think they own the place
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:39 pm to LSUDVM1999
I've killed plenty birds with my pellet gun when I was younger.
Posted on 9/19/19 at 2:50 pm to LSUDVM1999
A big part of it is outdoor cats.
Cats are killing machines. I hate the TNR movement for feral cats.
Outdoor pet cats are also a big problem for birds.
Cats are killing machines. I hate the TNR movement for feral cats.
Outdoor pet cats are also a big problem for birds.
This post was edited on 9/19/19 at 2:51 pm
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