Fair enough, for sure, but the statistic doesn’t really get at that point directly. It’d be better to say “50% fewer non-agricultural birds were alive in 2019 t

Fair enough, for sure, but the statistic doesn’t really get at that point directly. It’d be better to say “50% fewer non-agricultural birds were alive in 2019 than in 2018” (or whatever the stat is) if that’s the point they wish to make.