Adding Audubon magazine's coverage on the Cornell study as well, not for shameless promotion but because it has a helpful graphic and also does a by-habitat breakdown of the declines.
https://www.audubon.org/news/north-america-has-lost-more-1-4-birds-last-50-years-new-study-says Just spent my lunch at a hawkwatch and was at least happy to see many chimney swifts. Happy birding (and conserving), Purbita On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:28 PM Andrew Baksh <birdingd...@gmail.com> wrote: > And on that note. A call on Bronx Birders to please contact Margarita > Eremeyev at mereme...@gmail.com > > She is doing extensive research on the possible adverse effects the > planned paving of the Putnam Trail in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx May > have on wildlife. For example, the Rusty Blackbirds that have utilized the > wetland area near Tibbets Brook might be affected. > > There have been quite a few of us enjoying some of the birds being > reported from that borough as of late. Please take the time out to contact > Margarita to see if you could be of assistance. > > Thank You > > -------- > "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the > ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own > abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass > > 風 Swift as the wind > 林 Quiet as the forest > 火 Conquer like the fire > 山 Steady as the mountain > Sun Tzu <http://refspace.com/quotes/Sun_Tzu> *The Art of War* > <http://refspace.com/quotes/The_Art_of_War> > > (\__/) > (= '.'=) > > (") _ (") > > Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! > > > Andrew Baksh > www.birdingdude.blogspot.com > > On Sep 19, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Richard Guthrie <richardpguth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From:* The Washington Post <em...@washingtonpost.com> > *Date:* September 19, 2019 at 2:01:29 PM EDT > *To:* richardpguth...@gmail.com > *Subject:* *News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since > 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution > and cats.* > *Reply-To:* The Washington Post <em...@washingtonpost.com> > > A massive study of bird populations, using decades of survey data as well > as weather radar readings of migratory flocks, shows the United States and > Canada have lost 3 billion birds in the past 50 years. The declines have > hit sparrows, finches, warblers, thrushes, swallows and many other familiar > groups. > > [image: The Washington Post] > <https://s2.washingtonpost.com/3f15b/5d83c26be6e81b11e354edbf/cmljaGFyZHBndXRocmllQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D/0/10/cf733b20f45284e101109f40923c3c5c> > Democracy Dies in Darkness > > *News Alert* Sep 19, 2:01 PM > > North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. 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