The Environment - Birds

We've seen warnings about how the bird population is endangered before -

From May 2008: Climate change raising extinction risk among birds: study

Now there is a new study from the Secretary of the Interior on endangered birds in the US.

We keep 2 feeders going pretty much all year round. The feeders are literally inches away from windows so we get a very close view as they come and go. I think a bird feeder and a bird bath go a real long way with bringing life onto your property. I can't imagine not having that.

Science News: U.S. bird populations in decline, report says

A review of bird populations in the United States was released March 19 by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Nearly a third of the United States’ 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or in significant decline, the new report shows.

Bird populations are critical indicators of the health of our environment — “like the canary in the coal mine,” Salazar said at a press conference.

But conservation projects have been successful in reversing declines in some bird populations. Populations of 39 different species of waterfowl have increased by more than 100 percent during the past 40 years, thanks to efforts to restore more than 30 million acres of wetlands, the report says.