severe bird species declines in Europe

Severe bird species declines in Europe should concern all of us. These mirror recent declines of aerial insectivores in Canada, and some areas of the United States.

"...over the last 17 years, one third of birds have disappeared from French farmland."

 "'The situation is catastrophic,' laments Benoît Fontaine, conservation biologist from the Cesco at the National Museum of Natural History. 'Our farmland is turning into a real desert.' 'Populations of all bird species are literally collapsing in the cereal-growing prairies,' adds Vincent Bretagnolle, ecologist at the Centre for Biological Studies at Chizé and director of the Sèvre Plains & Valley area. 'Partridge are now practically extinct within our study zone.'

 Read more at:
https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/where-have-all-the-farmland-birds-gone
 

Ortolan Bunting -  Ph. by Zeynel Cebeci - Wikim. Commons