Missing: Nearly 3 billion birds that used to live in North America

The sharp decline, described in a

“Previously we didn’t have good estimates of population size,” Rosenberg said. “We knew the trends, but we didn’t really know how many birds of each kind were out there.” “I was pretty surprised,” said Beissinger, who was not involved in the study. “We don’t usually think in billions of birds.” Declines in the abundance of common species may not seem as dramatic as the endangerment of rare ones, but it is a very serious form of ecosystem erosion, the scientists said.

More than 1 billion birds have been lost from all forest biomes. Shorebirds, long threatened by the draining of coastal wetlands and urbanization, saw declines of more than 37%.The researchers did not weigh in on the causes for these declines. But other work has pointed to habitat loss due to urbanization, pollution, pesticides, and the intensification and expansion of agriculture as likely culprits, Rosenberg said.

Such policies and protections need to be put in place for other birds in other habitats, the scientists said.

Even the birds don’t want to live in CA anymore.

Maaybemorarrots , tp male us feel beta even though err not environmentally sound ,, te,pe la

God finally some one brings this up so I don’t look like a dodo trying to explain it

Yeah wind turbines kill upwards of 300k/year. Sustainable?

Yeah, because of f*uckin greedy developers!

Is this why I've got so many bugs? No birds left to eat them?

🌎 Interesting stats, but very short on the causes. Blaming cats is already suspect, since previous numbers blaming cats have been dismissed as wildly inaccurate. Please vet more carefully - no pun intended

5G should help

Birds don't live 50 years.

ShotgunSpr F

I FOUND THEM! 100 of them are in my back yard fighting with a squirrel.... seriously, encourage back yard bird feeders... feedthebirds (tribute: Mary Poppins!)

ok

Is that bad? How many mammals, reptiles, etc. have we lost in that time and why?

Tragic

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