[Maursault]

Anyone notice how few birds there are nowadays? Used to see them all the time. I live in a bird sanctuary. I see the same 25 birds every day. Used to be thousands. Maybe insects have collapsed. Maybe it's just us. I wish we could stop killing things.

[Markoff]

nope, I see mostly magpies around my house all the time here in Prague literally any time (they must like my neighborhood, seems they took over all other birds), often also pigeons, rarely other birds, can't say I don't like being in company of one of the smartest animals on this planet, shame dunno how to make friends with them

but yeah it's extremely rare for me to see sparrows unlike my childhood in small hometown 25-30 years ago, might be because of size of town

[LeoPanthera]

We have a very large yard and lots of trees so I started putting up bird feeders.

Now we have more birds than I've ever seen.

They're still out there.

[Maursault]

Where I live, 200ya they wrote about how large flocks of geese would literally darken the sky. There most certainly are far less birds than there were 200ya, but even 30 years ago there were still, you know, flocks of birds. Flock of birds now is like single digits. I have lived here, rural, since 2018, and there's hardly any birds. Amazingly, I saw a gathering of blue heron not long ago, about of dozen adults. That's insane numbers. But wait... there should be thousands of them. Get out of here with your, "they're still out there." Yeah, a few, I guess.