Toronto Star: he bad news keeps coming for bobolinks, barn swallows and olive-sided flycatchers, among other Canadian bird species all but annihilated in recent decades. According to a new report, some domestic wildfowl populations have declined by as much as 80 to 90 per cent over the past 20 years. And while the main culprits are climate change and dirty agriculture, the federal and Ontario governments seem set on complicity.
The Birdlife International study revealed that one in eight bird species worldwide...