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Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive

  • Written by François Leroy, Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology, The Ohio State University
Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensiveEastern meadowlark populations across the U.S. grasslands have dropped by about three-quarters since 1970.lwolfartist via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Since the 1970s, the U.S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren’t just growing – they are accelerating in places with intensive human activity, particularly where...

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