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.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Increased suicides by flying into plate glass windows and windshields might be attributable to some of those losses. Just in the last few days I’ve experienced three of those occurrences. Silver lining of the bird loss cloud is the savings realized from fewer car wash visits to remove bird droppings. As to cats? Coyotes handle that issue. One reason I stopped hunting them.
I would love to just hear one around here again. I listen every spring but nothing for years and years.
Freegards
Windmills do a lot of unnatural damage.
It’s fun to watch.
Well, anecdotally speaking for myself and my fellow bikers, I don't know how so many insects manage to hit my little bitty face shield. And so many nooks and crannies on my bike. I'm not that big of a target.
I miss nighthawks. Haven’t seen one in years.
Cats are DNA driven to murder birds.
No quibble with all you fine folks who own cats. Animal aficionados are all good peeps in my book.
That said, if it gets down to cats or birds, I'll side with our feathered friends 10/10.
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YUGE windmills very close to the Interstate such that their dynamic shadows intersect with the highway are very distracting.
They need to be placed much furthur [sic] away.
We at the ranch are partial to the birds that inhabit our property by the gazillions annually. I’m not going to list them again as I did in a previous post, but we have lots of birds we feed year round.
We have been here 32 years, and the bird population has only increased. NOT decreased. Seems every few years a new species finds us, and become members of the ranch community.
WE noticed reading the article no mention of environmentalism’s good buddy the windmill that is a documented source of death to birds by the millions annually. Seems they don’t want to infringe on other environmentalist’s territory even as they wipe out the bird population of the World.
Our cat has yet to get a turkey.
Ever since my wife began feeding a couple of stray cats the birds don’t come around anymore. We argument over this but I don’t push it. I live on The Jersey Shore years ago I had crackles coming to my feeders. Man, they were something. Beautiful iridescent feathers, metallic almost. Green, purple, really nice. I had, at one time at lest six breeding pairs of kardinals who would come around every Spring time and stay all Summer. Now, hardy see any birds. Except the robins. They’re hardy little buggers.I live near the several bird sanctuaries. Once and I while I go out with my Nikon binoculars and do some viewing. One of other favorites we have lots of here in southern NJ are Red Wing Blackbirds. They like to be around marshes and ponds. There have a very sweet, high pitched,almost I dunno... plaintive call, almost like a sigh.
Your cat lacks ambition.
FRicking environmentalist whackos are killing birds with windmills and solar energy farms!
Birds fly into windmill arms and are whacked, and birds fly through a solar energy mirror farm and are turned in to “flamers!”
Bird population will come back when we outlaw windmills and solar energy farms!
Windmill farms and solar farms are both hazardous to birds, not to mention two of the worst eyesores yet created by man.
Gee. And I thought banning DDT would save the birdies.
I used to watch them at dusk during the big termite hatches in elk season. The termites are pretty big, and backlit. The sky is full of them, and the nighthawks wheel around, and the light spots disappear in their paths. They’re logging the area...maybe I’ll be able to see them again. Should be opening up a lot of ground for nesting, too.
“Cats are DNA driven to murder birds.”
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Yep, they are genetically fine-tuned for the task. The actually usually kill birds for the sport of it. Way too many feral mats running around.
The cat knows where her food comes from and prefers to taunt the dog for entertaimnment...
The cat knows where her food comes from and prefers to taunt the dog for entertainment...
The study’s author suggests that people choose “shade grown coffee”.
How does coffee grown in South America impact the non-migratory birds of North America?
I have two Juniper titmouses that come every year to a birdhouse in my grape arbor. They are very industrious. As for the amount of birds,I haven’t seen a decline in numbers. Basically the same. Sometimes a flock of strange new birds will roost in the trees for awhile and then move on. We hear a hoot owl and there are all kinds of birds of prey. I think the article is B.S.
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