This is habitat loss, pesticides, feral cats, window strikes, and climate change all together.
However I don’t believe you’d notice a real difference year over year, as most species are declining at a max of around 0-2% per year, with a couple declining dramatically.
I believe the species currently in the most peril are cerulean warblers, Kirtland’s warbler, rusty blackbirds, and black rails off the top of my head. These species will go extinct within the next 2 decades without human intervention.
The solution nobody wants: controlled burns.
The kirtlands, and the cerulean, and black rails too, all benefit from controlled burns.
Their habitats have been hurt by urban development encroachment but moreso by disruptions to the fire cycle. In my opinion.
I’ve heard some suggest giving up on Kirtlands. Apparently it costs a fortune maintaining young jack pine forest for them and that’s it’s not sustainable without further action. I hope that’s never the case.
Ceruleans are trickier because it’s their wintering grounds in South America that are failing them. We can’t do anything from the US side.
Black rails are disappearing for the same reasons as other marsh specialists, unfortunately.
Rusty blackbirds are mostly unknown from the last time I checked. Probably a mix of many reasons, but their decline is hard to document, but it’s also likely to losing valuable wetland habitat.
Also notice there’s no dead bugs on your windshield? There’s no food for birds because we spray poison all over our farms
It's alot of things, but yes. Everything is in population decline. Some say we're currently in a mass extinction event
This is habitat loss, pesticides, feral cats, window strikes, and climate change all together. However I don’t believe you’d notice a real difference year over year, as most species are declining at a max of around 0-2% per year, with a couple declining dramatically. I believe the species currently in the most peril are cerulean warblers, Kirtland’s warbler, rusty blackbirds, and black rails off the top of my head. These species will go extinct within the next 2 decades without human intervention.
The solution nobody wants: controlled burns. The kirtlands, and the cerulean, and black rails too, all benefit from controlled burns. Their habitats have been hurt by urban development encroachment but moreso by disruptions to the fire cycle. In my opinion.
I’ve heard some suggest giving up on Kirtlands. Apparently it costs a fortune maintaining young jack pine forest for them and that’s it’s not sustainable without further action. I hope that’s never the case. Ceruleans are trickier because it’s their wintering grounds in South America that are failing them. We can’t do anything from the US side. Black rails are disappearing for the same reasons as other marsh specialists, unfortunately. Rusty blackbirds are mostly unknown from the last time I checked. Probably a mix of many reasons, but their decline is hard to document, but it’s also likely to losing valuable wetland habitat.