Tops Threats to Birds (U.S. only. Ordered by Median Estimate to Bird Mortality Annually. As of 2017.)
Causes of Bird Mortality1
Median Current Annual Estimate
How You Can Help2
Habitat Loss
Potentially largest individual threat to birds
1. Donate for habitat conservation (Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, etc.)
2. Influence conservation legislation (letter-writing campaigns, fully fund Land and Water Conservation Fund every year [esp. considering all the new oil extraction], Recovering America's Wildlife Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act/Convention, etc.--and be sure you know who you're voting for.)
3. Participate in habitat restoration and enhancement
4. Recognize heroes who help habitat
5. Symbolic fences using children's signs to protect sensitive habitats
Outdoor Cats
2.4 billion
1. Keep cats indoors and speak out against outdoor cats
2. Festival registrations that award gold stars to attendees who keep their cats indoors
3. Speak out against feral cat colonies
Collisions - Building Glass
600 million
1. Protective treatment of window for private and public buildings
2. Support conservation legislation (Bird-Safe Windows Act, etc.)
Collisions - Vehicles
200 million
1. Ease off the gas pedal
2. Honor the slowest driving tour guides
Poison and Toxics
70 million
1. Support conservation legislation and ask political candidates to work on neonicotinoids, 2,4-D, and glyphosate, as well as the creation of a uniform plastics recycling system, and then vote for politicians who act.
2. Personal use choices
Hunting
Lead Poisoning
70 million
21 million
1. Support legislation banning lead ammunition
(News: Interior Secretary lifts lead ban in 2017)
2. . Use non-lead ammunition
Industry Deaths - Collisions (Electrical Lines, Communication Towers, Wind Turbines); Electrocutions; Mining Claim markers; Gas Platforms; Oil and Wastewater Pits; etc.
41 million
1. Support conservation legislation
(News: Republican Liz Cheney introduces Bird-Killer Amendment in 2017)