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Story by Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY•5h ago
Right now plant and animal species around the globe are going extinct
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If you enjoy watching cardinals or bluebirds at a feeder or seeing a great blue heron at the water’s edge, it may not be immediately apparent but the nation’s birds are under siege.
“Birds are declining,” said Ken Rosenberg, a conservation biologist with Road to Recovery, an organization that focuses on recovery of the nation’s most rapidly declining birds. “It’s death by a million cuts.”
They’re imperiled by habitat loss, disease and other threats. Several incidents this spring illustrate a few of the hazards.
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Exposing the Big Game 
How about the guy who deliberately ran over endangered birds on a golf course/hotel grounds? I could hardly believe it.
All of that must go/be modified if we are to deal with climate change, along with the poisons and water monopolizing that are required to maintain such artificial environments.
The birds stay. But I fear we are willing to dispense with much of the other life on earth in order to maintain our unnatural lifestyles or the prospect of restrain our basic instincts. 😦
I meant to mention this also – I wonder how much people, and especially leadership, truly values birds and other wildlife. It seems like they are in our way, according to some.
On the ABC national news they had a segment recently about airplane bird strikes and how dangerous they are for air travel, and a very alarmist tone. They even had an ‘expert’ to discuss it.
How do they plan to address it, do away with birds? I shudder to think. I know at the NY airports they do shoot snowy owls and other birds. In Boston, a smaller and relatively less busy airport I suppose, they do capture and relocate snowy owls.
And now with proposed wind farms, they will be killing birds (and whales and marine life too) and not have any accountability for it or incentive to protect them, because of incidental take permits.
They need to get alarmist about overpopulation, which is the root cause of all of this!