Things Not Looking Good for Birds in North America Canadian Press
go to original May 19, 2016

Fully one-third of all North American bird species need quick help to stop them from disappearing, says the first continent-wide bird study conducted jointly by Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Of the 1,154 species of birds that fill the forests, marshes, coastlines and grasslands from the Yucatan peninsula to Baffin Island, 432 of them are considered at high risk of vanishing from the skies forever, according to the North American Bird Conservation Initiative.

"This is a continuation of trends we've known from national reports in the not-too-distant past," said Steven Price of Bird Studies Canada, one of more than a dozen non-profit groups also involved in the study.

Worst off are seabirds. The report found seabird populations have declined by nearly three-quarters since the 1950s and that 57 per cent of those species are on the road to extinction without conservation action.

Tropical and subtropical species are almost as bad off. And the report adds that between one-quarter and one-third of species along coasts, on the prairies or in drylands are going the way of the dodo.

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