Birds in Trouble Globally

Excellent series of articles (this is the first) and maps of the severely threatened birds.

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/aug/wingedwarnings1essay

Bird populations are plummeting. Ask anyone who has been birding for over 20 years and they usually reveal on how scarce certain species have become. I rarely run into wood thrushes here in Michigan. This species may go extinct in the next 20 years........................................Jim

We should also mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Martha. She was the last surviving Passenger Pigeon. They were once the most common vertebrate on the planet.