Natural History Wanderings

eBird reported

If you feel like you see or hear fewer birds than you used to, you’re not imagining things.

Across North America, birds are vanishing from the landscapes they once thrived in. New research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird Status and Trends was recently published in the journal Science. The paper, North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant, analyzes 495 North American bird species and shows that species we’ve long considered common, like American Robins and Mallards, are declining, especially in places where they were once most abundant.

Read on trends.ebird.org/