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A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished
submitted 10 months ago by [deleted] from nautil.us
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[–]Tom_Bombadil 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun - 10 months ago (4 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 - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 10 months ago (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 - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 10 months ago (2 children)
Cats, and not the farms? Cause they blame the farms.
Feral cats = bad
[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 10 months ago (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 - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun - 10 months ago (0 children)
It's likely because Americans are feeding them sugar free food again.
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