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Our study, covering 45 species across 91 countries, reveals that human-induced factors—predominantly electrocution, illegal killing, and poisoning—constitute th
by frm88 9mo ago
Our study, covering 45 species across 91 countries, reveals that human-induced factors—predominantly electrocution, illegal killing, and poisoning—constitute the major threats to bird mortality, highlighting a critical issue in global biodiversity conservation.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320724000867 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632072...
and from last year, US specific, endangered species:
A comparative assessment with data from the 2010 Red List reveals an increase in the proportion of threatened species recorded as being impacted by certain threats. Notably, the incidence of hunting and trapping as a documented threat has increased from 34% to 41% of threatened species. Similarly, the proportion of species assessments with fire/fire suppression, climate change, pollution, invasive alien species and energy production have each increased by 3-5 percentage points.
https://datazone.birdlife.org/articles/state-of-the-worlds-birds-2025-annual-update https://datazone.birdlife.org/articles/state-of-the-worlds-b...
Wind turbines are a significantly lower threat than windows, look it up!