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<blockquote data-quote="poorhunter" data-source="post: 5630992" data-attributes="member: 16537"><p>I can agree that there are places where urban sprawl can and does cause birds to abandon marginal areas. The problem is that birds are becoming void in prime areas too. I can also understand that populations have ebbs and flows, highs and lows. But what is happening all across the country, with some (but few) exceptions, is that the population is in slow and steady decline for the last decade. In some places it hasn't been so slow and steady. There are millions of acre as of prime habitat that have had no nest raider control for decades and decades and turkeys did just fine, and for some reason they are now basically disappearing from these same areas. Something has changed in the last 10-15 years that is causing widespread and alarming decline, be it natural or man made. This happened to quail as well, and it isn't known what happened with them. It is way too easy (and not accurate) to blame "predators and habitat loss" when the predators have always been there and there are vast acreages of prime habitat that lost their birds too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poorhunter, post: 5630992, member: 16537"] I can agree that there are places where urban sprawl can and does cause birds to abandon marginal areas. The problem is that birds are becoming void in prime areas too. I can also understand that populations have ebbs and flows, highs and lows. But what is happening all across the country, with some (but few) exceptions, is that the population is in slow and steady decline for the last decade. In some places it hasn’t been so slow and steady. There are millions of acre as of prime habitat that have had no nest raider control for decades and decades and turkeys did just fine, and for some reason they are now basically disappearing from these same areas. Something has changed in the last 10-15 years that is causing widespread and alarming decline, be it natural or man made. This happened to quail as well, and it isn’t known what happened with them. It is way too easy (and not accurate) to blame “predators and habitat loss” when the predators have always been there and there are vast acreages of prime habitat that lost their birds too. [/QUOTE]
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