Chris,
We have noted a continuous decrease in numbers banded, seen and heard
over the last 33 years. What species do come in and sing do so for a
shorter and shorter period. We believe it is a factor of ever lower
number of migrants with the concomitant decrease in territorial marking
and defense.
Humans are not designed to deal with this news. Scientists understand this; why
aren’t they out in the streets raising hell? They clearly have nothing to
loose at this point. They seem so silently complicit. Sorry if this is not
appropriate for the list serve, but what do we have to loose at t