A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The hardest hit were grassland birds, down by more than 50 percent, mostly due to the expansion of farms that turn a varied landscape into acres of neat, plowed rows.

Conservation acts starting in the 70's shut most of this down. Wetland preserves are all over.
So it's not the farms.

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Common backyard birds experienced a seismic decline. That’s where 90 percent of the total loss of abundance occurred

Felis Catus is to blame. Shoot feral cats on sight, if you care about the birdies.

As for

we didn't know it

This guy needs to get his head out of the laboratory once in a while. From 2013: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cats-kill-more-one-billion-birds-each-year

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Cats, and not the farms? Cause they blame the farms.

Feral cats = bad

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

As stated above (by you LOL) the farms are unlikely the reason that neighborhoods are losing birds

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's likely because Americans are feeding them sugar free food again.

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My local mall was built on a wetland preserve after the corporation gave a hefty donation to a local conservancy organization. The army corps of engineers even supervised the draining.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. There's plenty of corruption, and it's legal for certain people.

The people who own the country make room for their projects.

I use the word "own" deliberately, because they actually own the land, and also the citizens and resident who "reside" on it.

Citizens in a legal condition of "voluntary servitude".

The farmers are not included among those owners.

Bro, I will continue to detail how to get out of this "citizenship" trap.

I'm not a foolish sovereign citizen, or anything similar.

The sources that I've referenced contain all of the legal references that are on the books to prove the legal argument, as factual.
It is a fact of law.

I hope you will eventually take to time to look under this rock (national status), and see the facts of law for yourself.

You'll be able to make sense of how some seem above the law.
Because in a legal sense, they are above the laws.
The laws that apply to citizens..

[–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is this believable?

There are bald eagles all over. And other raptors. and deer populations have recovered. And beavers, etc.

But they're claiming a third loss in birds?

[–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My cat got most of them.

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't want birds to die, I also don't want birds to shit all over my decks either. Birds are fucking gross.

[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I suspect the vast majority of this, if it is real to begin with, is due to spraying insecticides which kill off the bugs which many of these birds eat.

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Remember when you had to clean the dead bugs off your windshield after a drive in the country? That doesn't happen anymore.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That sucks

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

this might be fake news like less insects, using the eye test I see tons of insects, tons of bees, tons of birds.