Factory farms, global warming and pesticides blamed for birds declining.
Check out this video about birds disappearing in Ontario. (CBC News, Bye Bye Birdies October 31, 2007)
The bird watchers are getting understandably upset as some of their favorites are not around anymore.
Robert Bateman makes an appearance since he’s an avid birder and naturalist and shares how he has noticed the birds population decline more and more over the years.
I think it’s sad so many different types of birds are disappearing. My Dad used to paint birds all the time and both my parents were bird watchers. I also enjoy watching them but am not as knowledgeable as they are yet about their colors, names, diets etc.
Some of the birds that have been dropping in numbers are Northern Bobwhites, Eastern Meadowlarks, Evening Grosbeaks, woodpeckers and hummingbirds. Although they’re not extinct yet the rate they’ve been declining is alarming. To avoid them from going extinct we need to improve our farming practices, fight global warming and save our wetlands.
