Wisconsin’s Vanishing Songbirds

Help keep our feeders, fields, and forests from going silent

Connecticut warbler. Jeremy Meyer

Can you imagine our world without songbirds?

North America has lost 30% of its birds since 1970. Warblers, finches and sparrows are among the hardest hit. Wisconsin is suffering these losses too and they’re continuing.

Our pleasure in seeing and hearing a variety of songbirds will go away if we don’t act now. We’ll lose a lot more, too.

  • Birds disperse seeds, pollinate plants, and help reduce crop and forest pests

  • Birds are “canaries in the coal mine,” alerting us to unhealthy conditions for people & wildlife

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  • “I believe in the power of the small. I tell my students, you don't have to impact hundreds or thousands of people. Let's start with seven.”

    Trish O’Kane, “accidental ornithologist,” author of Birding to Change the World, and a senior lecturer at the University of Vermont

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