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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
imageEastern 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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