Threats to Birds

The American Bird Conservancy has excellent information on the many threats that birds face from cats to wind farms to habitat loss to window collisions. The ABC also has information on solutions to these and other problems. Rather than repeat this information here, please visit their website by following the links.

• Habitat Loss

• Cats and other Invasives

  Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy

• Collisions (with windows, buildings, wind turbines)

• Fisheries

• Climate Change

• Pesticides

• Lack of Resources

• Extinction