Man can be addressed as ‘merciless’ when it comes to the need to make their ends meet. Be is large-scale farming or spreading suburbs wiping out forests and natural habitats, man forget to consider the indigenous habitats of a particular natural ecosystem – so is also the result with Eastern and Midwestern farmlands and Southern wetlands.
The once common meadow birds — like the Northern bobwhite, the Eastern meadowlark, the loggerhead shrike and the field sparrow – have declined alarmingly to meet man’s selfish causes.
A short period of only 40 years has seen 20 common birds, losing more than half their populations!
The bobwhite population — a rotund robin-size bird living in the mid-Atlantic to the Plains meadows — has plummeted alarmingly to 5.5 million from more than 31 million! This more than 80 percent decline in their count needs immediate efforts to prevent the species from being pushed to the brink of extinction.
It is not just where humans have push the birds to crisis – this indiscriminate wiping out of the forests and the bird-habitats has declined the evening grosbeak by 78 percent, i.e. from its previous 17 million to 3.8 million.
The birds will soon need federal protection. And the concerned authorities need to act ‘now’.