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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opinion by Kip Hansen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Audubon Society<\/a><\/em> is a foundational conservation organization in the United States:  \u201cThe National Audubon Society launched in 1905, on the heels of American conservationism and a growing movement to protect birds. As with many efforts to conserve nature, women led the way: The first Audubon Society was organized by two Boston environmentalists, Harriet Hemenway and Minna B. Hall, in response to the widespread slaughter of waterbirds, the gorgeous feathers of which were used to make women\u2019s hats.<\/em>\u201d   [ source<\/a> ]  Yes, that\u2019s right, birds were being slaughtered all over the world to feed the fad of fancy-feathered women\u2019s hats<\/a> \u2013 some even having whole birds on them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Audubon<\/em> has done some terrific work over the last 100+ years but more recently, since the turn of the century (20th<\/sup> to 21st<\/sup>), they have succumbed to the lure of climbing on the Climatism<\/a> bandwagon \u2013 diluting their message and muddying their reputation.   Worse yet, their current messaging and fundraising uses a toxic mix of Climatism and rabid Environmentalism \u2013 which I call Enviro-Climatism, <\/strong>a word I use to clarify that this movement includes the worst aspects of the present-day environmental movements and the wild apoplectic versions of the climate scare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have donated money to Audubon in the past and thus am on their fund-raising mailing list.  Every day I get yet another plea for money based on some mostly-false scary claim about the fate of birds like these pulled from the last ten days or so:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBirds are suffering from the impacts of climate change. Will you help?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s nothing short of a crisis, which means we don\u2019t have a moment to waste in protecting them for generations to come. In fact, two-thirds of North American bird species, including familiar songbirds like American Goldfinches, are at increasing risk of extinction because of climate change.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For birds like the Piping Plover, more frequent and intense weather events like storms and hurricanes are existential threats.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change is putting birds at serious risk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These beloved songbirds could disappear from two-thirds of their present breeding range.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extreme weather like heat waves and storms endanger young birds.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve already lost 3 billion birds in the span of a human lifetime.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBirds like the Piping Plover are not yet safe from potential extinction and we need ongoing support from generous people like you to protect them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Piping Plover is a species at serious risk: Although the breeding population is increasing, the Great Lakes population is still just a fraction of what it once was. Habitat loss and degradation contribute to its decline, as does disturbance from people, pets, and wildlife near their nests. And it\u2019s one of the two-thirds of North American species at increasing risk of extinction from climate change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, we\u2019re not willing to let the birds we love go extinct.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With their brilliant colors, bouncy flight, and musical call notes, American Goldfinches are summer favorites in open habitats across much of North America. But if climate change continues unchecked, they could disappear from two-thirds of their present breeding range.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the midst of this code-red climate emergency\u2014and as their very survival is threatened\u2014birds rely on your support now more than ever. Two-thirds of North American birds are at increasing risk of extinction from climate change including beloved songbirds like American Goldfinches and vulnerable shorebirds like Piping Plovers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had enough?<\/u><\/strong>  I have, and more\u2026. Let me try and set a bit of this straight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Goldfinch<\/u><\/strong>  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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This lovely little bird is a common sight at backyard birdfeeders across most of North America.\u00a0 The males are a brilliant yellow when in full-breeding plumage.\u00a0 I see them every Spring as they arrive in the U.S. Northeast and watch as they take on their breeding fancy dress colors.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The claim that Goldfinches might disappear is simply false.  The latest  IUCN Red List assessment for the American Goldfinc<\/a>h, reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion. \u2026.  The population trend appears to be increasing, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion \u2026. The population size is extremely large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion\u2026. For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are not Vulnerable at all for any reason.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Audubon uses this non-existent threat as a scare tactic to get donations out of the anxious, the \u201clittle old ladies with too much money\u201d (I have a relative I am thinking of, who is a sucker for begging junk mail), and true bird-lovers for whom National Audubon was once a respected source of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Piping Plover  <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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This little shorebird is so cute<\/a><\/strong> that it fascinates beachgoers as it runs this way and that, avoiding the tiniest of waves as it picks and pecks at the sand for bits of food.  I have written about plovers before, when they were benefitted by the aftermath of Hurricane\/Superstorm Sandy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest IUCN Red List assessment lists the Piping Plover as \u2018Near Threatened\u201d \u2013 that is, not actually threatened with possible extinction, but might be so soon \u2013 \u201c<\/strong>A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as \u201cNear Threatened\u201d (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to endangerment in the near future, but it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.\u201d [ source<\/a> ]  \u201cNear Threatened\u201d is one of the three \u201cLower Risk\u201d categories in the IUCN Red List hierarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IUCN assessment<\/a> reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis species has a small population which has declined significantly since the 1950s. However, there have been overall population increases since 1991 and the species\u2019s population is thought to currently be growing at a slow rate<\/strong>. The population increase is however largely the result of intensive conservation management and thus it is likely that positive trends would reverse again if conservation action were to stop. Due to its high conservation dependence and the risk of future declines following any stochastic event, the species warrants listing as Near Threatened.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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The Piping Plover faces a number of threats..  They breed in the dunes along the seashores and lakeshores \u2013 and waterfront development and the intrusions caused by humans and their pets (dogs and cats) interfere with nesting and endanger brooding chicks.  This sign has Piping Plovers as the right-hand image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increasing populations of the small falcon, the Merlin<\/a>, a winning species,  whose primary prey is other birds, are listed as a threat in Virginia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any disturbance<\/em> of beaches during breeding season can disrupt Pipers, including conservation efforts, like beach replenishment, nest surveillance and beach-grass planting.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, the bottom line for Piping Plovers is that while their breeding areas can benefit from some protections,  they are not particularly at risk and certainly not in crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, two-thirds of North American bird species\u2026are at increasing risk of extinction because of climate change.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these types of claims have some basis in fact, but, as you would suspect, are alarmist spins produced by advocacy organizations.  Most of the data comes from a report called \u201cState of the Birds 2022<\/a>\u201d,  \u201cThe 2022 U.S. State of the Birds report was produced by a consortium of government agencies, private organizations, and bird initiatives led by NABCI (North American Bird Conservation Initiative).<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have written here at WUWT about earlier versions of this report \u2013 \u201cAbout those claims of declining bird populations due to \u2018climate change\u2019<\/a><\/em>\u201d and \u201cBirds in Crisis?<\/a>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no doubt that as land-use changes and local weather conditions change, cities are built, farms and ranches expand and, on the other hand, as much agricultural land is abandoned and reverts to transitional forests or grasslands, the populations of birds that inhabit these ecological niches will change.  There are winners and losers, some individual species and types of birds have expanding populations and some have shrinking populations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the latest State of the Birds , <\/em>the NABCI<\/em> offers this overall picture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this we see that waterbirds of all kinds are booming.  Western Forest Birds are long-term steady.  Eastern Forest Birds, Shorebirds and Grassland Birds populations have leveled out and stabilized in the last decade.  And, a number of birds types declining, some very steeply.  Note that in keeping with Enviro-Climatism memes, NABCI<\/em> has labelled some species \u201cTipping Point species<\/a>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sources for the data for this (and previous reports) are explained as: \u201c<\/strong>This report describes population change for 259 species of North American birds summarized from 5 surveys: the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS, 176 species, Sauer et al., 2020), the Christmas Bird Count (CBC, 60 species, Meehan et al., 2020), the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey (WBPHS, 14 species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2021), the American Woodcock Signing-ground Survey (SGS, 1 species, Seamans and Rau, 2021), and International Shorebird Surveys (ISS, 9 species, Smith and Smith, 2022<\/em><\/strong>).\u201d\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bird counts may all suffer from the same problems recently found in monarch butterfly counts,  which I explain in this essay: \u201cModern Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars \u2014 Part 1<\/a>\u201d, to wit; the counts are performed by volunteers who count at specified locations on pre-determined days, year after year.  Neither the butterflies or the birds are informed of the locations and dates in advance and may miss their appointments or simply pass by at another time or another location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are conflicting reports on some of these trends.  For instance, the category \u201cSea Ducks\u201d:  in the NABCI report, it says:  \u201cSea ducks face elevated threats from climate change, including effects on food resources, altered predator communities, and rapid changes to breeding habitats<\/em>.\u201d And show a sharp declining trend of \u201c30%\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, the specialized conservation group \u201cSea Duck Joint Venture<\/a><\/em>\u201d contradicts that statement,  explictly saying \u201c\u2026for most species of sea ducks, we cannot accurately estimate abundance, relative densities, or population trends, nor determine abundance objectives.<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the oft-repeated claim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThree billion birds lost 1 in 4 breeding birds have been lost from the United States and Canada in the past 50 years.\u201d?  <\/strong>[ State of the Birds 2022, page 4 ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have this from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the United States alone, there are 60 million to 100 million free-ranging, unowned cats. These are non-native predators that, even using conservative estimates, kill 1.3\u20134 billion birds<\/strong> and 6.3\u201322.3 billion mammals each year in the U.S. alone<\/strong> (Loss et al. 2013, Nature Communications).<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This does not include the number of birds killed by 58 million owned pet cats allowed to roam free at least part of the day.   In the 50 years covered by the NABCI<\/em> claim, cats would account for between 65 and 200 Billion<\/u><\/strong> birds killed (by feral cats) and untold billions more by pet cats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reports of  \u201c3 billion birds lost\u201d, repeated in Audubon fund-raising,  pales by comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are staggering numbers, yet there is very little real pressure from National Audubon<\/em> or NACBI<\/em> , nothing in the The State of the Birds<\/em> report,  calling for laws and regulations to prevent this rampant slaughter.  The topic is somewhat toxic<\/a> for National Audubon<\/em> as illustrated by the 2013 kurfluffle over a Ted Williams Op-Ed<\/a> in a non-Audubon publication, resulting in an official apology from Williams<\/a>..   A search of the National Audubon\u2019s magazine reveals that Audubon took a strong stand on cats in 2013 thru about 2015:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo let\u2019s be clear: Audubon\u2019s long-standing view, strongly supported by the best available science and laid out in a resolution by our board of directors, is that cats \u2013 particularly feral cats \u2013 are a leading cause of bird deaths. Audubon strongly believes that cats belong indoors. That\u2019s safer for them and for birds.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 2015, their magazine is silent about the cat issue, until recently, with two articles in the Spring 2024 issue in support of keeping pet cats indoors [ here<\/a> and here<\/a> ], but no lobbying campaigns for legislation or regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bottom Lines:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Audubon is among the many advocacy organizations that are using exaggerated and, in some cases, outright false claims of crisis and disaster to extract money from the gullible and from the caring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find it extremely offensive.   In the case of National Audubon, they could make perfectly reasonable requests for money for the support of their good, helpful, and useful projects and programs.  They do have programs that actually improve the situation for various birds, such as protecting wildlands and breeding sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author\u2019s Comment:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please take note that this Opinion piece applies to National<\/em> Audubon, and not to the many affiliated regional and local Audubon clubs and groups, which generally all do great work, educating children and adults about birds and helping to maintain safe places for the birds to live and breed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, National Audubon<\/em> is not the only advocacy groups to use fear as a motivator in fund raising, it is just the one that appears in my email stream regularly with outrageous misleading claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a bird lover, support your local Audubon chapter and bring fund-raising the abuses of National Audubon the attention of your local people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, keep your cat indoors \u2013 or at least prevent it from free-roaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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