[wisb] Re: common species in steep decline
- From: "Steve Thiessen" <stevethiessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wpmueller1947@xxxxxxxxx>, "wisbirdn" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:29:10 -0500
I finally looked at this list. It really makes you think a bit deeper about
some of our common birds. Who would have thought Grackle. I see flocks of a
couple hundred at a time. But then I thought about my area in Stoughton.
Still very common, but are their as many nesting in my block as before. I
don't think so.
I'm just a Wisconsin birder, so I don't see the big picture on many of
these species. Looking at the Long-tailed Duck, for us, it just seems like
they just moved further from shore, in the winter.
For a number of years I thought the numbers of Pintails was up in
Wisconsin. But did that mean they lost large areas of the nesting grounds?
Or a shift like the pelicans did. A 2 year drought could really knock
numbers down.
Thanks Bill, for keeping us up to date with many of avian friends. Steve
Thiessen Stoughton Dane co.
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Mueller" <wpmueller1947@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "wisbirdn" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 4:25 PM
Subject: [wisb] common species in steep decline
>A quote from the recent State of the Birds report:
> "AS PART OF THE 2014 STATE OF THE BIRDS REPORT,
> a team of scientists from the North American Bird Conservation
> Initiative (NABCI) identified the 33 U.S. common bird species in
> steep decline. These are common birds that do not meet Watch
> List criteria, yet according to long-term monitoring surveys are
> rapidly declining throughout their range. They have lost more
> than half their global population over the past four decades.
> We know that birds that are abundant today can undergo a mas-
> sive population collapse with surprising rapidity. Passenger Pi-
> geon populations crashed from 2 to 3 billion birds to none in the
> wild in just 40 years. Keeping common birds common, while we
> still can, is as important as preventing extinctions of rare species."
>
> To see the list of species, go to:
>
> http://www.stateofthebirds.org/habitats/2014%20SotB%20CBinSD_FINAL.pdf
>
>
> William Mueller
> Director, Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory
> WGLBBO online: wglbbo.org
> wpmueller1947@xxxxxxxxx
> office 262-285-3374
> cell 414-698-9108
> blog: futureofbirds.blogspot.com
> Belgium, WI
>
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