Sentences with phrase «kill bird habitat»

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Humans kill hundreds of millions of birds by using pesticides, decimating their habitats and placing objects in their way, such as cars, airplanes, windows and transmission towers and lines.

Bottom Line: Birds are killed by destruction of habitat and millions of pounds of pesticides every year, but no one wants to stop development or see our lawns and golf courses devoured by insects.

As the numbers of cats declined, the last having been killed in 2000, the rabbit population increased, to an estimated 100,000 by 2007 ---- and rabbit damage to bird nesting habitat proved far more damaging to the sea bird population than cat predation ever had been.

bird feeders and nesting boxes — but as much to compensate for the destruction of habitat caused by the creation of the plot on which their home stands than for the occasional kill that their cat makes.

It argues, for example, that humans kill far more birds by destroying habitat.

As he suggested in his State of the Union speech, President Obama seems willing to generate electricity for three million homes by blanketing a million acres of public lands with taxpayer - subsidized, bird - killing wind turbines, habitat - smothering solar panels, high - voltage transmission lines, and gas - fired backup units.

According to the Audubon Society, up to a billion birds are killed each year by colliding with windows, the second biggest threat after habitat loss, and a whole lot more than wind turbines.