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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/tec...-15-billion-fewer-birds/article31876053/

From the article:
“North America has more than a billion fewer birds than it did 40 years ago, with the snowy owl and the chimney swift just two of the better-known species in dramatic decline across the continent, a recent survey has found.

The Partners In Flight report concludes that urbanization, growth in agriculture and possibly even climate change have driven the decline in North American landbird populations, a category that excludes ducks and other waterfowl.”

neotropical migratory songbirds have been taking it on the chin for a spell.

Loss of habitat due to too many people is the main cause.
Chimney Swifts need chimneys.
Most buildings no longer have them.

Too many damn cats. 😉

Millions have died due to wind turbines. The sudden drop in pressure from a fan passing in front of a bird ruptures vessels in their brain I've heard.

And hawks.

Wind power turbines kill. Reflections off solar panels disorientate.
Oh yeah, the sky is falling.

Those folks that wrote that need to come count doves in my back yard. Could probably shoot 10 limits in a day with the air rifle if I got desperate.

all cats should be kept inside, or on leash if outside.

time to crack down on exotic invasives.

Pesticides aren't helping either.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/birds-neonicotinoid-pesticides-farming-migration-delays

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...-used-pesticide-makes-birds-lose-weight/

Tell that to the Snow Geese.

i just hate it when feral cats disrupt the lifestyle of neo-tropical migratory songbirds.

the cat people are well entrenched, as are the dog people and horse people.

possums, raccoons, and foxes are natives. coyotes not so much.

our friends, the radical environmentalists know we have an issue.

You guys are old and out of touch. Feral cats got the blame way back when people laughed about "scientists" running around with their hair on fire over the coming age of glaciation. The generation Z meme is climate change and that is obviously the cause of every ill in the world.

we need an enemy that we can easily blame, assign credits for our dilemma.

cats, on leashes could go a long way in solving our bird population problem.

Most of the problem is habitat loss in Central and South America although that wouldn't apply to the Snowy Owl. It seems that climate change has usurped all other environmental issues to the point where they are hardly discussed.

Smart meters.

I've read that this same pressure drop phenomena affects bats in a big way. Lots die because of wind turbines.

I'm thinking the tons of granular fire ant bait used in central and southern Texas has had a devastating effect, Squidge.

I dont know if that's what is in anything you listed above.

a fall off in insect population might be a factor?

what could cause that, if anything?

surely humans are to be blamed?

i haven't seen a devil's horse this year.