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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

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.


41 posted on 09/19/2019 8:21:04 PM PDT by chulaivn66 ("...government will follow its natural tendency to despotism.")
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To: gundog

I would love to just hear one around here again. I listen every spring but nothing for years and years.

Freegards


42 posted on 09/19/2019 8:21:16 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Paladin2

Windmills do a lot of unnatural damage.

It’s fun to watch.


43 posted on 09/19/2019 8:22:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: HangnJudge
Anecdotal evidence has been offered of much greater apparent abundance of insects in the 20th century; recollections of the windscreen phenomenon are an example

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.

44 posted on 09/19/2019 8:23:21 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: gundog

I miss nighthawks. Haven’t seen one in years.


45 posted on 09/19/2019 8:24:03 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Guns don't kill people. Planned Parenthood does.)
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To: House Atreides
Too many cats!

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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46 posted on 09/19/2019 8:24:58 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: ConservativeMind

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.


47 posted on 09/19/2019 8:29:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Java4Jay

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.


48 posted on 09/19/2019 8:29:50 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ("Democratic" party sold out to the ICP. It is now the Communist Party USA.)
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To: Seaplaner

Our cat has yet to get a turkey.


49 posted on 09/19/2019 8:30:19 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: txnativegop

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.


50 posted on 09/19/2019 8:32:20 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: Paladin2

Your cat lacks ambition.


51 posted on 09/19/2019 8:32:30 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Guns don't kill people. Planned Parenthood does.)
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To: Java4Jay

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!


52 posted on 09/19/2019 8:32:43 PM 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: Java4Jay

Windmill farms and solar farms are both hazardous to birds, not to mention two of the worst eyesores yet created by man.


53 posted on 09/19/2019 8:33:02 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: Java4Jay

Gee. And I thought banning DDT would save the birdies.


54 posted on 09/19/2019 8:33:48 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Flatus I. Maximus; Ransomed

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.


55 posted on 09/19/2019 8:34:14 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Seaplaner

“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.


56 posted on 09/19/2019 8:34:46 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

The cat knows where her food comes from and prefers to taunt the dog for entertaimnment...


57 posted on 09/19/2019 8:35:59 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

The cat knows where her food comes from and prefers to taunt the dog for entertainment...


58 posted on 09/19/2019 8:36:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Java4Jay

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?


59 posted on 09/19/2019 8:36:17 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: Java4Jay

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.


60 posted on 09/19/2019 8:38:04 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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