A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by wombatpm on Saturday July 15, 2023 @10:31PM (#36742949)

I’m in the Midwest. I noticed a big drop off in birds when westnile virus came through. Dead birds in the middle of the yard was a dead giveaway. Don’t see crows anymore.

But when I was a kid I never saw hawks, now I can usually spot 5 or 6 when I’m out during the day.

Makes me wonder what the baseline count should be.

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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by jeffbee on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:06PM (#36743132)

This is a book I enjoyed in which the core message is that the way we first saw a place, as children, or when we moved there, influences the way we imagine its undisturbed natural state, whether that's true or not.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Once_And_Future_Wor...

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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by WalterBright on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:54PM (#36743448)

A couple weeks ago there were 5 eagles circling overhead where I live.

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