Call to Action: Bird Populations Need Our Help to Stem Losses

Bird watchers all over New Jersey have been feeling something amiss.

“I see lots of backyard birds like cardinals and robins, but I have to search harder to find birds that thrive in more natural habitats,” said Emile DeVito, staff biologist at New Jersey Conservation Foundation. “The birds are all still out there, but not in the numbers I remember in the 1970s, when trees were dripping with birds.”