3 Billion Birds Gone!

Help Reverse Bird Declines Today

The biodiversity crisis has come to our backyards. In less than a single human lifetime,

2.9 billion breeding adult birds have been lost from the United States and Canada, across

every ecosystem and including familiar birds: The Dark-eyed Junco has lost an 

incredible 175 million individuals from its population.

The White-throated Sparrow

has lost 93 million.  To put it another way, we’ve lost more than a quarter of our birdlife since

1970. These findings were reported in the world’s leading scientific journal, Science, by

researchers at seven institutions, including American Bird Conservancy.

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