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Bird-Watching and Ornithology

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A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished (nautil.us)
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/2196737

Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos.

To see that a THIRD of them have disappeared is like a knife to the heart.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know it's accurate, but as a relatively younger birder and wildlife biologist, that's just insane to me. I too have a few bird tattoos (and another next weekend). It's hard to imagine more birds out there, but easy to imagine more species going the way of the ivory-billed.