A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

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[–]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.