World is in the 6th mass extinction of its history...

Prothonotary Warbler photo 
by Helena Reynolds                                                   Roseate Tern photo by Brian Burke                                                                                                                 

THEIR FATE IS OUR FATE

                      -- Peter Doherty, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist and author

In my April 13th blog, I mentioned that Prothonotary Warblers and Roseate Terns were endangered in Ontario.   I was quoting from 'Birds of Eastern Ontario' published by Dorling Kindersley Limited and written by David M. Bird, Ph.D, Director of the Avian Science and Conservation Centre at McGill University in Montreal, in April of 2013.   Dr. Bird includes over 350 birds species in his guide, and 126 of those are designated as Rare/Declining/Vulnerable/Localized or Endangered, leaving 225 species listed as secure.  Numbers like these are being found in areas all over the temperate and tropical world.   It's not too late to reverse this decline and protect the birds in the air, the animals on the ground and the creatures in the sea.   If we protect their future, we will live to enjoy our own.

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BarrytheBirder