Audubon Report on Common Birds in Decline Echoed Worldwide
Source: BirdLife (via National Audubon Society, Inc.)

A new international report entitled State of the World’s Birds reveals precipitous declines in populations of many of the world’s most familiar birds, broadening the alarm first sounded in the U.S. by Audubon’s 2007 Common Birds in Decline analysis.
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The BirdLife report highlights avian losses worldwide. A staggering 45% of common European birds are declining, and on the other side of the globe, Australian wading birds have seen population losses of 81% in just quarter of a century. In Latin America, the Yellow Cardinal – once common in Argentina – is now classified as globally Endangered.

Citing the 2007 Audubon report, BirdLife’s State of the World’s Birds report states that populations of “Twenty North American common birds have more than halved in number in the last four decades.” The Northern Bobwhite fell most dramatically, by 82%. As documented in Audubon’s first State of the Birds report in 2004 and reinforced in this report, “Some of North America’s fastest declining birds are grassland species whose habitat has been damaged by agricultural expansion and intensification.”

+ State of the World’s Birds

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