I know birds are killed/disturbed when things are built but we must built houses/hospitals/schools for humans.
You can’t really object to mosquito spraying because a few birds might be killed. Tell me you aren’t that nuts.
My neighborhood was built in a heavily wooded area 50+ years ago, I am sure some birds were killed/displaced then. Now the huge trees are full of birds and their nest so it worked out OK. I feed and water them and my yard is a riot of songbirds all year long. We still have a pair of Goldfinches that didn’t leave with the others. The male is bright yellow now.
If every egg laid by every bird hatched and lived to maturity and reproduced we would be knee deep in bird poop. Thankfully some of them die.
I did not say I did. I'm telling you what kills them. It's more than a few if you add up the entire peninsula of florida twice a year.
In Florida, I've seen many areas where the big besting birds (cranes, etc) nested in for YEARS totally wiped out by growth. THey nest in fields not trees. They're gone. You don't see them anymore. So many trees were wiped out too, so the birds don't have many places to live. Also, down here, some developements don't allow you to feed the birds. I have both cats and birds that I feed in my back yard(land which belongs to the association not me) but the cats never have killed a bird. Because I feed the cats. I have cardinals, some small new red breasted birds, woodpeckers, black birds of course and pigeons/doves, blue jays...) I have many generations of cardinals. The cats will lay under the very tree/bush where my neighbor and I hang the birdfeeders. Not one bird is killed. I've had a dove fly into my kitchen window and kill itself and I've had a hawk fly down and grab a dove and eat it alive. I also have many racoons...who you know climb trees and steal the birds eggs. Raccoons LOVE eggs. Everyone forgets that they are the Main bird egg stealers. Cats don't steal eggs.. Also, we used to have otters in the canals. No more....suburban growth. So dont' blame the cats.