2.9 billion breeding birds disappeared since the early 1970s

  • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve kept my birdfeeders full, put out water for them, kept many thorny bushes I’d rather remove bc the songbirds love to nest in them and I am still seeing a decline. Not in the number of total birds, but each year the diversity goes down. Less songbirds, woodpeckers and hummingbirds, more cowbirds, more blackbirds. It’s alarming.

    I realize this is just my backyard, but it’s wierd seeing a mass extinction just…play out. Right in front of me.