Birders number in the millions. If we became active as birders—many of us are involved in various activist organizations—we could make a big difference.
Regi What good is a house if you don’t have a tolerable planet to put it in? Henry David Thoreau > On Sep 20, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Linda Orkin <wingmagi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps it’s only because friends and family know me and know of my passion > for justice for all beings and it is that which is driving the multiple > forwards to me, but it does feel that this horrible news in this blunt and > data driven report has awakened many to realities we all try to avoid. I > hope down to my very bones that the “despair leading to change” has good > staying power. > > > Linda Orkin > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> "For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun >> and the light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into >> the world to enjoy" Plutarch >> >> If you permit >> this evil, what is the good >> of the good of your life? >> >> -Stanley Kunitz... >> > > >> On Sep 20, 2019, at 6:21 AM, <k...@empacc.net> <k...@empacc.net> wrote: >> >> >> - >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> >> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] [nysbirds-l] Fwd: News Alert: North America >> has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts blame habitat >> loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats. >> Date: 2019-09-20 10:19 >> From: k...@empacc.net >> To: David Nicosia <daven102...@gmail.com> >> >> Dave, the tower lighting change is not an immediate mandate but voluntary >> until replacement takes place. At that time the new type must be installed. >> All new towers are to use the new lighting. It's going to take a long time! >> >> As a side note, when ABA started this drive we were able to pass a local law >> in the town of Hector that prohibits any structure above 200 ft AGL which is >> when lighting is mandatory. As it turns out we were first in the nation to >> do so. One tower remains in the National Forest with the old lights and is >> now scheduled for light replacement. >> >> Of interest, one of the fall outs of public meetings required before >> enacting the local law was a complaint from those suffering certain seizures >> as strobe lights appear to be a trigger for some with that condition. >> >> I agree with your other comments and would add the trend locally for dairy >> farms to become agribusinesses with thousands of cows. Each cow by law >> mandates a certain amount of acreage for manure disposal which has caused >> the removal of hedgerows, the deforestation of woodlots, the monocropping of >> fields with non-bird and prey species friendly crops and a new methods of >> harvest that leaves little gleaning for the bottom of the food web. Put >> together this is a massive hit to the avian community. >> >> John >> >> --- >> John and Sue Gregoire >> Field Ornithologists >> Kestrel Haven Migration Observatory >> 5373 Fitzgerald Rd >> Burdett, NY 14818 >> 42.443508000, -76.758202000 >> "Create and Conserve Habitat" >> >> On 2019-09-20 00:03, David Nicosia wrote: >> >> >> 1. Why are european starlings declining? That is crazy but concerning when >> a seemingly adaptable invasive specie is dying off. >> 2. Could it be related (in part) to West Nile Virus? >> https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/west-nile-virus-still-wiping-out-birds-across-north-america >> 3. Grassland birds have been declining for decades and will continue unless >> farming practices are changed and more bird friendly. In the northeast U.S, >> we have lost many farms and they have reverted back to woodlands. I see this >> in many areas of Bradford Co. PA where I grew up. I remember a lot of field >> birds in places that are now full of saplings 30 feet tall. >> 4. Rampant deer populations destroying undergrowth for many ground nesters. >> The DEC locally needs to find a solution here. This is manageable! >> 5. Pesticides and herbicides (especially the lawn treatments) which are so >> common. I always wonder how this affects Robins and other birds that forage >> on the ground. I never use this stuff on my "lawn" and it has a lot of >> weeds. So what. I could care less what people think. >> 6. Spruce budworm population cycles in our boreal forests. This could >> explain decline in warblers since there was a massive outbreak of budworms >> in the 70s and 80s. Many warbler's populations are tied to these cycles. The >> 1990s and 2000s there was a lull and now they are on their way up again. >> This could explain a more natural cycle in warbler populations independent >> of vireos. (this is speculation). >> 7. More towers and wind farms? If a wind farm and tower are lighted >> properly does it kill that many songbirds at night? The FCC has new >> guidelines which supposedly reduces tower kills. >> https://abcbirds.org/article/communication-tower-owners-change-lighting-protect-birds/ >> Not sure if this is working but hopefully so. >> 8. Invasive species. Look at the wholesale changes when all of our ash >> trees die, hemlocks and others. Also invasive fish, plants etc. >> >> There is probably many others which is sobering. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 4:21 PM Purbita Saha <bitas...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Adding Audubon magazine's coverage on the Cornell study as well, not for >>> shameless promotion but because it has a helpful graphic and also does a >>> by-habitat breakdown of the declines. >>> >>> https://www.audubon.org/news/north-america-has-lost-more-1-4-birds-last-50-years-new-study-says >>> >>> >>> Just spent my lunch at a hawkwatch and was at least happy to see many >>> chimney swifts. >>> >>> Happy birding (and conserving), >>> Purbita >>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:28 PM Andrew Baksh <birdingd...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> And on that note. A call on Bronx Birders to please contact Margarita >>>> Eremeyev at mereme...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> She is doing extensive research on the possible adverse effects the >>>> planned paving of the Putnam Trail in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx May >>>> have on wildlife. For example, the Rusty Blackbirds that have utilized the >>>> wetland area near Tibbets Brook might be affected. >>>> >>>> There have been quite a few of us enjoying some of the birds being >>>> reported from that borough as of late. Please take the time out to contact >>>> Margarita to see if you could be of assistance. >>>> >>>> Thank You >>>> >>>> -------- >>>> "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the >>>> ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own >>>> abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass >>>> >>>> 風 Swift as the wind >>>> 林 Quiet as the forest >>>> 火 Conquer like the fire >>>> 山 Steady as the mountain >>>> Sun Tzu The Art of War >>>> >>>> (\__/) >>>> (= '.'=) >>>> (") _ (") >>>> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! >>>> >>>> Andrew Baksh >>>> www.birdingdude.blogspot.com >>>> >>>> On Sep 19, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Richard Guthrie <richardpguth...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>> >>>> From: The Washington Post <em...@washingtonpost.com> >>>> Date: September 19, 2019 at 2:01:29 PM EDT >>>> To: richardpguth...@gmail.com >>>> Subject: News Alert: North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, >>>> study finds. Experts blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and >>>> cats. >>>> Reply-To: The Washington Post <em...@washingtonpost.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Democracy Dies in Darkness >>>> >>>> >>>> News Alert Sep 19, 2:01 PM >>>> >>>> >>>> North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, study finds. Experts >>>> blame habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution and cats. >>>> A massive study of bird populations, using decades of survey data as well >>>> as weather radar readings of migratory flocks, shows the United States and >>>> Canada have lost 3 billion birds in the past 50 years. 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