Birds Are Rapidly Disappearing From the Earth

Birds Are Rapidly Disappearing From the Earth

Birds Are , Rapidly Disappearing , From the Earth.

'The Guardian' reports that in the past 50 years, a fourth of all the birds in North America have disappeared.

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In a recent opinion piece, author Kim Heacox shines a light on these amazing creatures and the grim warning their disappearance represents for humans.

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In 2021, wildlife officials announced that a male bar-tailed godwit flew 8,100 miles from Alaska to Australia in under 10 days.

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The godwit, tracked with a small solar-powered satellite tag, set a new , "land bird flight record.”.

Godwits aren't the only birds that cross incredible distances every year.

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The Arctic tern, which flies from pole to pole, travels the equivalent of three trips to the moon and back over the course of their lives.

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The Arctic tern, which flies from pole to pole, travels the equivalent of three trips to the moon and back over the course of their lives.

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Bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas at staggering altitudes which exceed 20,000 feet.

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However, nearly everywhere, birds are in decline.

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Multiple states have recorded massive die-offs of flycatchers, swallows, bluebirds, sparrows and warblers.

Multiple states have recorded massive die-offs of flycatchers, swallows, bluebirds, sparrows and warblers.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the ivory-billed woodpecker and Bachman's warbler as two more newly extinct species of birds.

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the ivory-billed woodpecker and Bachman's warbler as two more newly extinct species of birds.

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When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again, William Beebe, Naturalist, via 'The Guardian'