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Bird numbers plunge in U.S. and Canada with people to blame
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Posted on 09/19/2019 7:58:43 PM PDT by Java4Jay

From grasslands to seashores to forests and backyards, birds are disappearing at an alarming rate in the United States and Canada, with a 29% population drop since 1970 and a net loss of about 2.9 billion birds, scientists said on Thursday.

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To: Java4Jay

Unfortunately the few birds remaining still manage to poop on my windshield three times a week.


141 posted on 09/20/2019 5:05:35 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: madison10

Agreed. I was just going to say they didn’t visit my yard. And we have an ornamental pond they love to drink and bathe in.


142 posted on 09/20/2019 5:08:22 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Karl Spooner

That video was incredibly sad.

I hate those ugly windmills, they have them atop many of the beautiful hills going up into the Poconos now, and they just look awful. And out of a dozen or so, maybe one is turning at any sort of speed most of the time. Solar farms are hideous too, taking up acres and acres in some places — just outside of Boston there are quite a few of these visual blights.


143 posted on 09/20/2019 5:10:18 AM PDT by twyn1
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Like that scary Hitchcock movie “The Birds?”


144 posted on 09/20/2019 5:13:47 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( Be kind to your children. They will determine where you live when you get old.)
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To: Java4Jay
They included sparrows,

House Sparrows are invasive and growing in numbers. They are also a danger to cavity nest builders such as chickadees.

I've seen a growing number of grackles which are also a danger to song bird nest builders in that they will eat the eggs and chicks.

I'm doing my best to protect the song birds by shooting the sparrows and grackles every chance I get.

And don't get me started on starlings....

145 posted on 09/20/2019 5:14:49 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Java4Jay

I think all these birds are on my place. The finch at my place can eat a gallon of sunflower seeds a day. Have finch, sparrows, swallows and thrush.

I also have a good number of birds of prey. 3-4 different hawk species and a few American Eagles. I have 5 acres of mowed lawn teeming with field mice. Nothing like watching those birds hunt.


146 posted on 09/20/2019 5:15:15 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: Java4Jay

This is simply more Fake News™.


147 posted on 09/20/2019 5:18:54 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: roadcat

LOL!

Saw that after I posted.

Tellem!

Tellem what you toldem!

Tellem again!


148 posted on 09/20/2019 5:21:40 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I had two pair of chickadees nest in the bird house on the side of my house. When the babies of the first pair fledged, the second pair took over the house and had babies.........


149 posted on 09/20/2019 5:23:47 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Java4Jay

Human population up by 40% with corresponding habitat loss.

Nearly all the increase from immigration.

Open the borders.


150 posted on 09/20/2019 5:24:12 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Much improved numbers of Monarch Butterflies this season

Boy, I'll say! Here in S.E. Michigan I haven't seen so many monarchs as I have this fall.......all heading S.W

151 posted on 09/20/2019 5:25:34 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Java4Jay

They are all in New Jersey. LOL


152 posted on 09/20/2019 5:32:18 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Hot Tabasco

That’s interesting. I had a similar occurance

We have a red ceramic apple bird house suspended from a tree limb. It has been there for yers, un occupied. Last year the Chickadees nested in it.

This year the wrens who have always lived here nested there, then the Chickadees and then the wrens again.

This is yet another examlpe of how wild life has adapted to living with humans.


153 posted on 09/20/2019 5:36:28 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Deaf Smith

A lot of birds prey on other birds. In the areas where I’ve lived, we’ve lost far more baby birds to birds - crows, particularly - than ever to cats.


154 posted on 09/20/2019 5:39:25 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You need to come to our house then. We have all the Mourning Doves you’d care to view. All day, all year. Hubby feeds them and we have for over 20 years. Same with the Hummers. We have more hummers in the winter, when they’re supposed to migrate, than we do in the summer.


155 posted on 09/20/2019 5:40:00 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
LOL! I heard one Robin singing the other day, but he must've been on his way South!

I had a piebald-headed (feathers are white, not colored) Robin hanging around all spring and summer. He was easy to spot, and his favorite perch was my cucumber trellis.

156 posted on 09/20/2019 6:02:44 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: Java4Jay

Decade after decade of widespread habitat destruction.


157 posted on 09/20/2019 6:06:21 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Hot Tabasco

So glad to hear that! We’ve added TONS of Milkweed all over the place and Beau is careful not to mow it down in the cow pasture, as well.

I had a lot of Monarch caterpillars around this year - a very good thing! :)


158 posted on 09/20/2019 6:06:28 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: New Jersey Realist

Funny you mention the movie “The Birds.” My son and I drove to the coast yesterday for some hiking with our dog. Pescadero, CA was full of blackbirds yesterday. They are incredibly noisy in flocks. As we were walking along the streets of the town, I told my son “this is like the Hitchcock movie ‘The Birds.’”


159 posted on 09/20/2019 6:33:32 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Java4Jay

The trend should reverse now we’ve had fewer weddings and fewer grains of rice for Tweety to choke on

Also, this is natural selection at its finest- at one point we were inundated by starlings and other imported birds


160 posted on 09/20/2019 6:48:52 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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