Nautilus article: A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished (1 Viewer)

[rajas]

An article in the Nautilus

A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

The hardest hit were grassland birds, down by more than 50 percent, mostly due to the expansion of farms that turn a varied landscape into acres of neat, plowed rows.

 

[Ignatius]

They need more cornfields for biofuel, feeding cows in feedlots and poisoning people with HFCS. Different mindset and set of priorities.

I find the first photo in the original article amazing. It is so beautiful that I am tempted to think it is a montage.