Shrinking North American bird population is getting worse faster. Experts blame agriculture, warming

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago and their population is ...

North American birds are dying off faster. It signals a human crisis, too.

The accelerating decline of birds is a bellwether of far deeper biodiversity crisis — one that threatens not only beloved species but the humans who live alongside them.

Hotspots of accelerated North American bird decline linked to agricultural activity

Though previous research has shown that bird populations are declining across North America, a new study is the first to show that the pace of loss has picked up speed since the mid-1980s in three ...
Mongabay

North American birds are plummeting in areas where they’re plentiful

A newly published study has found that nearly 75% of bird species in North America are sharply declining across their ranges, and eight in 10 plummeting in the very areas where they’re thought to be ...
NBC Montana

North American grassland birds in peril, spurring all-out effort to save birds and their habitat

POTTER, Neb. — When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the western South Dakota prairie. Nothing’s better, he says ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Why Dozens of North American Birds Will Soon Get New Names

In 2020, the American Ornithological Society dubbed this bird, formerly named for a Confederate general, the “thick-billed longspur." Skip Russell via Flickr> under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED Starting next ...
WebMD

What to Know About the Gouldian Finch

Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...