MORNING SENTINEL • March 11, 2020
“Decline of the North American Avifauna,” a study published last fall, reported that since 1970, North America’s bird population has decreased by about 30%. The researchers said they began the project thinking they would discover that some bird populations have decreased while others have increased, and they expected the increases would balance out the decreases. But the gains nowhere near offset the losses. Three billion lost, overall. This study is telling us that the whole ecology of North America is suffering. ~ Dana Wilde