Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone
Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone
A new study finds steep, long-term losses across virtually all groups of birds in the U.S. and Canada
A new study finds steep, long-term losses across virtually all groups of birds in the U.S. and Canada
Absolutely disheartening. I'm already sad about the lack of butterflies. We're running headfirst into some nearly irreversible trends here.
Don't forget bats and bees!
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Fucking windmills have got to be stopped!
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Obviously more coal is the only solution. And it definitely has nothing to do with pesticides. Only a lefty hippie communist groomer would think that.
Avoid Pesticides
Look for organic food choices and cut out some of the 1 billion pounds of pesticides used in the U.S. each year.
Organic food isn't necessarily pesticide free, it just uses "organic" pesticides, which aren't necessarily any better.
More than 1 billion pounds of pesticides are applied in the United States each year. The continentās most widely used insecticides, called neonicotinoids or āneonics,ā are lethal to birds and to the insects that birds consume. Common weed killers used around homes, such as 2, 4-D and glyphosate (used in Roundup), can be toxic to wildlife, and glyphosate has been declared a probable human carcinogen
We are past beyond the point where we can make arguments based on "necessarily". We cannot keep applying the same method. Those bird did not vanish for no reason. At least we know organic pesticides better than the endless new synthetic pesticides that take years to analyze after they have done their damage to the environment.
Our ecosystem is getting more and more fucked.
God, as someone who loves birds, this is heartbreaking. :(
Imho, this is a "canary in a coal mine" situation. The mass deaths is the beginning of the extinction wave that'll clear off humans too. Whatever life will continue will hopefully be more respectful of our planet.
Tell that to all the motherfuckers chirping outside my bedroom at 4am
They're coming to avenge their brethren. Be very afraid.
Very sad to see.
That's "great" news to wake up to!
Here, https://kbin.social/m/news/t/182914 .
Now don't tell me that I never bring you anything nice š
The birds are coming for us next!
The Age of Plastics, y'all.
aka The End Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time
The main loss for birds comes from the loss of their food source, which comes from pesticides and land use of the agricultural sector.
Add global warming to that mix, and we're just pushing multiple species to extinction while hastening our own.
All this so already wealthy people can become more wealthy.
When I was a kid in the '70s and '80s I can remember the front grill and windshield of our car being absolutely plastered with bugs. I mean like power wash to get them off plastered. Today it's surprising if I have more than a handful of smudges on my windshield.
Most people don't even now what a dark-eyed junco is nowadays, the numbers have dropped dramatically.
That's a lot of cameras.
We really aren't satisfied with having living dinosaurs it seems.
Thats more than sad. But can we Talk about the Graph? It makes it look Like the majority of bird Population is gone (expecting the Base Line to be Zero) and i See nothing to set the Numbers in any Relation. Wouldnt it be better to use a photo of a cute little birb instead?
It's about a third of all birds.