North America has lost 30% of it's bird population

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https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/09/nearly-30-birds-us-canada-have-vanished-1970

I heard pet cats are a major contributory cause of the drop.

Cats are a leading cause of global warming.

I'm taking the cats off my vehicles then.
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There's a big clue in the text when they say raptors have increased by 30%
What would they be living on then?
There's enough land in Canada to mean the implied human influence is debatable.
Also a lot of the changes won't just be pesticides they are wanting to blame.
Like here small farms especially dairy have largely vanished with their small herds and associated flies for the swallows.
The land they occupied is now suburban lawn or taken over by larger farm neighbours with 20 metre wide combine harvesters.

Even if those farms have gone back to scrubby woodland it likely won't be as good for insects and birds as the more open landscape with livestock and smaller fields with a bit of cropping.

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Wind farms.

Kill migrating birds, bats and insects. They're at the perfect height to massacre as much air born wildlife as possible

Wind farms also contribute massively to greenhouse gasses (along with all the other eco-shite like solar.)

By trying to save the planet the tree-huggers are actually hastening the end. Almost as if that was the plan all along
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[chickenstrip]

Lots of cats around here. Lots of birds too. The cats must have all turned into snowflake lefties.
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[grr666]

There isn't a cat brave enough to come into my yard while the dogs out there. Shes met each and every nearby local
cat and the outcome has been pretty much universal. One giant woof and a lunge and they depart in that way cats do
when somethings shit them right up. One stood its ground a few nights while I was walking her to a nearby valley, it saw
her coming arched its back as we got closer, she was on a lead obviously. The usual Woof lunge combo did the trick but the
cat was so shocked when it turn and ran that it ran straight into a brick wall, top speed and nearly knocked itself out.
I've been chuckling about that all week. That said if she could catch the pair of wood pigeons that seem to have adopted
my garden then she would have them. She'll get 'em one day...
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[Monkeywrenche...]

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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

At my house two small birds have died this year by flying into closed windows. I've cleaned the dusty, greasy evidence of around ten pigeon strikes too, though their fat bodies and tiny heads seem to give them protection. The mark they leave suggests they see the danger and hit the brakes at the last minute. Apparently windows are a significant threat to birds.

https://www.sibleyguides.com/wp-content/uploads/Bird_mortality_chart.jpg

https://abcbirds.org/blog/truth-about-birds-and-glass-collisions

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That's the answer! Ban back garden glass houses...

'cos, you know, greenhouse effect
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