Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a third in fifteen years

Re:Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a t... by tzs on Thursday March 22, 2018 @02:01AM (#16646135)

> Anecdotally I can say that there are certainly far fewer insects here than there were in the 60s and 70s when I was growing up, and also that there seem to be far fewer birds.

Could some of that be due to you paying more attention to insects and birds when you were growing up? Kids tend to spend more time outdoors than adults, especially more unstructured time, and so might be expected to have more time to notice things like insects and birds, and more time to indulge curiosity about them.

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Re:Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a t... by dredmorbius on Thursday March 22, 2018 @02:34AM (#16646277)

I can assure you that the attention windshields have paid to bugs hasn't changed.

The need to clean same, has.

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Re:Bird populations in French countryside have fallen by a t... by cs02rm0 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:51AM (#16646661)

There could be other factors.

Anecdotally, I remember in the 90s my parents having an old and very box shaped Volvo. Driving through light snow one day my mother was struggling to clear the windscreen, we were on our way to pick up a hire car which ended up being a brand new Mercedes. The angle and shape of the windscreen was entirely different and the snow just followed the airflow up and over.

That said, we have front registration plates in the UK which are probably less subject to aero improvements and ISTR the same phenomenon being observed there.

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