Scientists issue urgent warning after alarming collapse of bird populations across the US: 'We have a full-on emergency'
A report from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows that bird populations across every U.S. habitat are plummeting, with 229 species in urgent need of help.
Odd, I'm sitting here in my sunroom in east Tennessee, which backs up into woods, and I'm hearing about 4 or 5 different songbirds chirping away.
Same [Indiana]. Added another feeder last week to keep all of them happy and populating.
I'm beginning to think that the real bird decline is among the countless s#*tbirds in government who are leaving or being forced out.
🙌 You're on to them!
Wifey has two bird feeders and peanuts for the crows.....WOWZA@@@@
Wifey is my kind of "people"! 🙌
Odd, 50 years ago you may have heard 30 or 40.
BS. News of the imminent end of the world is grossly exaggerated.
I never said it's the end of the world.
A report from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows that bird populations across every U.S. habitat are plummeting, with 229 species in urgent need of help. And the impacts go far beyond bird-watching, pointing to deeper risks for ecosystems, economies, and human health.
What's happening? The 2025 State of the Birds report, released in March by a coalition led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and detailed in a university release on Phys.org, found that bird populations continue to decline.
More than one-third of bird species are considered of high or moderate conservation concern, and 112 species are labeled "Tipping Point" birds, meaning they've lost more than half of their populations in the last 50 years.
Birds such as Allen's hummingbird and the salt marsh sparrow are barely hanging on. Duck populations, a rare bright spot in past reports, are also beginning to decline.
they will blame it on climate change but with all the chem trails, 5g towers, wind mills, and all the other shit the government does its no wonder.......
Perhaps all the 'Round-up' sprayed on the farmlands of America has something to do with it, or perhaps all the GMO grains don't agree with the birds' digestive systems. There is a greater issue with 'Honey Bees'. Bees do most of the pollinating of plants and the "Colony Collapse Syndrome" puts farming at risk. But again, the use of GMO plants and 'Round-up' seems to coincide with the loss of bees.
highly probable
World better wise up extremely quickly about dying pollinators from enviro poisons!!
I started moving 6" of fallen leaves into my garden beds every fall. I didn't notice much difference the first two years, but this year the amount of little pollinator bugs flying around has been crazy. I've also moved to hardwood mulch every other year. No need to apply more right now - the leaves break down and serve as mulch, too. It just doesn't look as tidy while the plants are working to fill in.
Exactly, kill the insects, kill the birds. Ever notice the lack of bug splatters on your wind screens in the past few years?
What bug splatterers? There are none!
Still time for "Aliens" to hum, and swamp "birds" to be spared, but Ducking is out.
The pentacost is the 50th day of Easter. Costly event for the Pentagon coming?
Time to Doge Cornell U.
Not our biggest concern (defeating communism) but definitely worth attention. Time to stop carpet bombing everything with glyphosate and using seeds with pesticides gmo'd in.
Same here. There are very few birds compared to how many there used to be forty or fifty years ago. Bees are way down, lightning bugs are almost non existant, and my windshield is clean driving through the country at night.
I have noticed that as well. Not as many bumble bees or other flying bugs. Yeah, seen garter snakes & rodents.
Its all bullsheet and fear mongering to beg for money for a crisis that they created, if it exists at all.
Correct.
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I recently realized there were far fewer bugs (it's noticeable they don't hit your windshield any more). I figured it was because of the 5G and jet spray. So it's time for some labs to figure out the cause, not hard to do. Lee Zeldin of EPA, here is a task for you.
KEK!!!!
Bird's don't have trees to make their nests in urban areas, nor do they want their babies to grow up around a bunch of dimwits suffering from TDS....
And Michigan is going to gas their geese?
Since they are probably the source of numbers for the last 10 years, zero trust here. False high numbers reported previously can never be authenticated, just the actual number this year.
Funny, I have the Cornell Bird app ( it's awesome if you're a birder / bird photographer ) and zero mention of this anywhere.
Maybe it's all the crap they aren't spraying in us. Wink wink.
Total bullshit.
Not just birds, bunnies are disappearing from here in the northeast.
The dimming of the sun which we can't speak of. And fields of mammoth windmills and acres of solar panels heating the air.
Can we please have fewer crows, seagulls, and Canada geese? In NV there seem to be more than usual!