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.

We are fortunate enough to have a large bank barn that has been a barn swallow nesting ground for years. Although we use the top floor and seal it off, we leave a gate open for the swallows in the ground level every year. It’s a joy to see 50+ of them on the telephone line in late summer.

This year our flock is significantly smaller, and two of them didn’t make it. Hopefully just a one-year anomaly, but deep down I doubt it.

Keep your cats indoors people!

America hates communism so much they couldn’t even bother leaning Mao’s biggest mistake.

They also hate science. Good luck.

Cats, both domestic and feral kill between 500 million and 4 billion per year. More people need to keep bells on their cats if they let them outdoors to give birds a chance.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cats-kill-more-one-billion-birds-each-year

Nah, there is no mass extinction event. It’s just that the government has been funding more r&d for more reliable drones with upgraded hardware and better features, these newer drones are more expensive to maintain so there are less of them

(Birds aren’t real). /s

I hope its all geese. Fuck geese