Oh, a BILLION SOULS LOST is a PEDESTRIAN THREAT, huh?
"About a billion birds - die each year by crashing into buildings they cannot see.... building collision is the second biggest cause of death to birds after habitat destruction.... But even for many ecoconscious building owners and developers, the price of preventing bird kills is too high"
"Some bird populations plummet amid US development" by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post | March 20, 2009
WASHINGTON - Several major bird populations have plummeted over the past four decades as development transformed the nation's landscape, but conservation efforts have managed to stave off potential extinctions of others, according to a comprehensive survey released yesterday by the Interior Department and outside specialists.
"The State of the Birds" report, a sweeping analysis of data compiled through scientific and citizen surveys over the past 40 years, shows some species have made significant gains even as others have suffered....
The fact that concerted conservation efforts have saved birds such as the peregrine falcon and allowed various wetland birds to flourish, scientists said, shows that other species can reverse their declines with sufficient support from federal agencies and private groups....
Translation: Let us globalists run things and everything will be fine.
The species in decline are being affected by climate change, habitat destruction, invasive species, and disease, among other factors, the report found. More pedestrian threats, such as collisions with buildings and attacks by feral cats, have diminished birds' numbers in some urban and suburban areas.... --more--"
Also see:
Rockin' Robin
Boston Globe Bird S***
