When you kill all the bugs, you kill all the birds who eat bugs, too?
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Also people that let their cats outside are part of this problem.
Cats are the cutest, most precious little cuddly things. But they need to all be indoors. Every single one of them.
Mine stays inside for just this reason.
Yep, same. Plus they live healthier lives indoors and are far less likely to be injured.
In contrast my dogs have become pals with our neighbours up in the back tree.
Every afternoon around the same time, the birds land on the back porch and call them out,. Even if the dogs are snoozing they instantly get up and sprint outside, then a round of chasey-swoopy happens for a few mins before they all come up and sit on the back porch together for a while. This happens every day about an hour before sunset for a couple years now.
Cool birds too. If I go out there and sit with everyone, the bravest bird some times perches on my arm with the temptation a small bit of ham.
Any idea what kind of bird they are?
Yeah, but they're native to this region and I've already had one family member track me down through Lemmy recently lol.
They're comparable to a crow in size and intelligence. But unlike a crow they have a beautiful song as well. They're very social too
So, yeah, it's very sad to see one get taken out by someone's housecat.
Oh, I didn't mean to dox you and your family 😅 very cool! Glad you get to have fun with them!
Oh, don't worry about it. That's a me thing to worry about, not yours. I really wanted to answer your question but couldn't without being weird about it.
Point is; no matter where you are on this planet, birds are incredible. Many are super smart and so become friends or acquaintances.
It's very sad to see them taken out by cat owners (I'll never blame the cat).
Inconceivable!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means
We are a walking, talking extinction event: Welcome to the Holocene Era!
Part of me tries to rationalize the current state of the world as a last gasp by those who know we're all doomed and can't change anything. The elite and powerful. And instead of trying to fix anything, they've all decided they're gonna go balls to the wall before it's all fucked beyond repair.
And they think they want to live forever too. Like Zuck with his bunkers, who tf is going to take care of him when it all goes to shit? Money isn't going to be worth anything. Maybe that's why he trained for MMA, lol.
That dude is going to get blasted by his head of security before they run out of caviar.
He's gonna pull a Ted Faro
We will end up as an oily radioactive smear in the geological record. And that’s fine with me.
Seems like that would just piss off 99% of the population and ensure those responsible a terrible fate once billions of desperate humans get so fed up they'll become capable of pretty much anything. I'm guessing a lot of these people are already so old they don't care or so insulated the don't understand the danger they're putting themselves in.
Unfortunately, they did it. They won if that was their goal. We could still get vengeance but we're not preventing anything.
The next time my cat glares at me for keeping her inside, I'll point her to this and argue that birds already have enough problems. She can chase me and the string around the house to get the hunties out of her system
I think this decline concerns only the nice birdies.
Definitely not them flying rat ones like Black Geese, Gulls and Feral Pigeons. They seem like multiplying. And shitting everything.
Ya’ll ain’t heard yet? Birds aren’t real.
I've got nine laying hens and will probably get a few more this year. I'm doing my part.
Also I have all sorts of bird feeders. I've got one of those ones that sits in the window, and a damn squirrel keeps on coming into it and taking all the seeds. My dogs growl at him...and he fucking growls back, the little shit.
It's an ongoing feud.
Make the seeds spicy. The squirrel will stay away after an attempt or two and the birds don't have the receptors for the spice to bother them.
Oh that's brilliant. I should've thought of that. I usually rub my pumpkins with Frank's Red Hot (I put that shit on everything) to keep the squirrels from eating them.
Cayenne Pepper is usually the go to for birdseed. Have a video cam you can point out there? It would have led to hilarious footage if I had thought to record.
Damn those windmills!
/s if that wasn’t clear
Birds became vegan, counting calories and pumping in the gym. They aint gone they adapted.
Start reducing cat feeding people?
There is still an active bird influenza killing birds.