What Declining Bird Populations Tell Us About The Future of Our Planet | National Audubon Society | Birds & Nerds

🦅 How is climate change affecting birds and what can bird populations tell us about the future and health of our planet? In this episode of Birds & Nerds, host Ramona Schindelheim speaks with Chad Wilsey, Chief Scientist at the National Audubon Society, about how birds serve as early warning signs for climate change, habitat loss, ecosystem stress, and biodiversity decline. Drawing on Audubon's climate research, Chad explains why nearly two-thirds of North American bird species are at risk from climate change, how extreme heat, drought, flooding, false springs, and sea level rise are changing bird habitats, and why grassland birds have become one of the clearest warning signs of environmental change.

🌎This conversation also explores hopeful climate solutions, including citizen science such as the Christmas Bird Count, native plant gardening, clean energy, natural climate solutions, and Audubon's Conservation Ranching program, which supports healthier habitats for birds while helping ranchers and communities thrive.

🎧 Listen now to learn how protecting birds can help protect clean air, clean water, healthy ecosystems, and the future we all share. If you care about climate change, conservation, birdwatching, biodiversity, sustainability, or practical climate action, this episode offers science-based insight and hopeful solutions.

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