No one cares that the lovebug population has drastically declined because they are a nuisance. They are visible, but what else is dying off that we can’t see?

https://www.crimson.fit.edu/campuslife/lovebugs-are-they-gone-for-good/article_4568d227-14dd-4c31-b297-ca786b9b241b.html

It’s sad, really. The abundance of life dying off in FL.

Palm Beach County here.

We have birds all over the place.

House finches, Blue Jays, Starlings, Cardinals, Parrots, even a few Egrets have been in our yard.

Unfortunately, the primary bird is the pigeon, but they mostly scavenge what is dropped on the ground, so at least they cannot get into the feeders we have.

I just looked at the feeders we have in the backyard and counted 4 finches, 1 starling, and 2 parrots.

We are about 1 1/2 blocks from the Intracoastal.

I could be the impact of the bird flu that is not being closely monitored in the USA and certainly not in Florida.

Avian flu detected in migratory birds in SWLA

Yes. Our feeders were mobbed until the beginning of December. Haven’t seen a bird in two weeks. Highly unusual.

I've not noticed this. Where are you located and noticing less birds?

When we had years of Red Tide just a few years back the entire Bay and areas around it (Sarasota) were completely dead. No Pelicans. Basically the food chain had been wiped out by pollution.

We are getting a small resurgence now that we have a short break from Red Tide....but I am certain that decades back there was vastly more wildlife. What else is new?

Florida is #1 in water pollution - #1 among all states. That is not welcoming to wildlife.

I have trees around me in an older neighborhood just outside of Tampa city limits. I have a feeder that daily gets a pair of cardinals that nest in my backyard. I get several tufted titmice and some Carolina chickadees daily at it too. In my yard I see birds every day… blue jays, crows, grackles, wrens, sparrows, sand hill cranes, woodpeckers, mockingbirds, egrets, whistling ducks and hawks. There are gulls in the parking lots. Pretty sure I spotted a hummingbird once too. I have a family of opossums in my backyard and see raccoons, squirrels and black racers often. Something I’ve never seen is rats or mice. My yard is an oasis of life in the midst of the over populated concrete insanity around me.

They are definitely here in South Florida. I'm in Palm Beach County. Many different species seen daily and I wake up to the lively chirping. I see plenty of Whooping Cranes. Love how the bring aggressive drives to a full halt.

Check to see if you have active coyotes or even raccoons in the area. I think it's more weather driven as it is still warm here in the 80s during the day and 60s at night.

Bird populations are dropping and bird flu is everywhere now. We're seeing fewer birds this year, too. I'm hoping for the best.

Highly depends on where you are, some areas are still thriving and a few have noticed some decline. With more construction than ever, of course it will happen. Habitat loss. Bird populations in Florida have dropped 30% in the last 50 years, some species have rebounded here, and there though.

The birds are saying: way too many people in Florida!

They’re all at the pond by my apartment.. seriously tho, the population is thriving and i have a couple gator neighbors too.

Treasure Coast here and we have tons of birds. Last night, my husband & I watched what seemed liked millions of common grackles migrating down from North Florida. Other than that we have the usual crew of mourning doves, Cardinals, scrub jays, woodpeckers, ibises, great blue herons, egrets, ospreys.

They are all here in Palm Beach County..East side.🙂

Sandhill cranes still sticking it out where I am.

My yard. They are all in my yard.

We’re in Jupiter. Haven’t noticed ant change.

I have quite a few every day on my feeders (central Florida.) More this year than the last two combined. I figured it was some climate related migration change.

The feral cat population is out of control.

Guess which apex mini predator loves killing birds for sport? Bingo- Cats.

They are all in my backyard. We had at least 4 sets of baby cardinals this year it was awesome. The blue jays were massive and when dove season started, we had an abundance of mourning doves hanging out waiting for it to end lol. We had multiple red shoulder hawks circling I have a picture of two of them sitting on our old basketball goal in the backyard and twice we saw one land in our yard and pick up a snake! Downy Woodpeckers we had them as well and even a fuzzy looking fox. There were a pair of brown thrashers and just this past week I saw a tiny wren on our windowsill. Sorry we took all the birbs this year we do miss the fireflies, so we'd be open to a trade.

Baby birds cannot eat birdseed, nuts, or berries. They need insects to survive, many thousands of them per bird. Likewise, those baby insects can often only survive by eating plants native to the area, particularly trees (aka host plants). Part of the problem is insecticide use, but another is developers cutting down all the native trees and replacing them with non-native palms and crape myrtles and other "tidy" ornamental plants. Decline in insect population = far fewer baby birds survive to adulthood = bird populations also start to collapse.

Climate change, less than normal rainfall this year, extremely hot summer and warmer than usual winter not only makes it harder for birds to survive but makes it harder for plants and animals they rely on to thrive. Habitat loss from new development and increased pollution creates the same issues.

The areas birds used to call home have been destroyed and built over. The insects they feed on have been killed off by pesticides. Our property has plenty of birds because we give them a place to be. Our neighbors ask the same question asked in this post, I give them the same answer

I miss the sound of whippoorwills where I live.

I’m in Illinois and we were talking amongst some mature birders. We didn’t see the Sandhills fly over this year. We go down to Indiana to watch the birds fly in and out and this year the #’s are half less past years 30k and this year 15k a week. Someone also mentioned a merganser kill off of 50000 bird rookery. There is defiantly bird problems. We have also noticed some geese and ducks still on the water here. It is late for them.

The cats people keep letting outside ate them

My God yes. I grew up in a fairly rural area, lots of woods, with live oaks feet from my bedroom windows. They were inescapable. I remember looking up in awe at the migrating flocks that seemed to fill the entire sky. I remember seeing many birds of prey circling, looking for a meal. I remember the specific asshole woodpeckers that kept attacking the nesting birds in our birdhouses, until my dad got the genius idea to put big metal washers over the holes so they couldn't chip away the hole to make it big enough to squeeze into. I remember the occasional heron or stork like wader in certain areas. I remember ducks and geese in many ponds that have no waterfowl now. All that just in my small town. And it's just.....quieter. Fewer songbirds singing. It's so sad. I hate it. It's like they're just gone, along with the bats and fireflies.

Birds eat bugs and we have gotten rid of them too…

Everyone spray pesticides on their sterile lawns, we remove every tree from new subdivisions, our house cats go outside and kill birds, no native plants or flowers to feed birds, everyone uses leaf-blowers and rakes up every leaf that helps bugs survive over colder months

and we wonder 💭 where’s the birds ?!?

Over Three Billion birds estimated gone in North America…

I live across from Mosquito Lagoon and the space launches are killing so much wildlife. Very few birds in my yard. We aren't seeing as many hawks. I can't remember the last blue jay I've seen. We use to have a lot of wrens but not anymore. I live on two acres and one is wooded. It is strange.

About a quarter of Everglades National park is dead. Like every tree. And outside that area there are vast wildlife dead zones in the park and Big Cypress where there is just nothing.

I lived in Florida when there were wild flocks of parakeets everywhere- they’re LONG gone now. This state has been losing its wildlife steadily since the 1800s. Hell, people used to come down here in the late 1800s/early 1900s just to wipe out entire populations of birds so that ladies up north could have fancy feathers in their hats. https://www.fws.gov/story/how-two-people-saved-millions-birds

There used to be many Quaker parrots in my neighborhood years ago.. but they started to cut the trees and those birds all left. I haven't seen them in years.

I saw a documentary on this. The increase in the snake population has deeply affected the bird population.

total random guess is all the invasive lizards are eating all the little bugs etc other food the birds would otherwise get

I have to say I'm seeing hearing the same and I'm next to a federal park near St. Johns river

Global Climate Change

The Key Largo Cactus also went bye bye

We got a ton more birds then usual this year in Tampa bay

Feral and outdoor cats. They hunt the birds that congregate near my backyard feeders. I hunt them. It’s the Circle of Life.

Used to get Robin migrations pass by my house late winter/early spring every year. Like hundreds or thousands of them in my trees for a few hours. Haven't seen it in a few years.

2 of them are currently living on my porch in South Florida and don't seem to want to leave except for the day. They always come back at sunset. They seem to really love me, but I'm not THAT loveable. It's weird

Seminole county here. Yes, my bird feeders have been very inactive this month and in November I went through a few bags of seed.

I'm in Celebration and there's birds all over the place! Flocks of white birds, blue jays, owls and sand hill cranes.

I’m in Brevard too and have less bird feeder birds swinging by this year than years past… sometimes I think they’re just at the “better” houses and feeders. Mine need to be cleaned - they keep getting gunked up and gross from our intermittent rain… but there’s a good bit of migration time left. Idk! It’s definitely a bummer compared to past years.

lol you need to ask? Or maybe you don’t understand what’s been happening for decades here in Florida?

I notice alot less of the common green angles in florida now.Most anoles are now just non native species that are naturalized here with their populations growing as the native green anoles are decreasing at the same time.

I can account for most of the wild geese , as for the rest , I don't have a clue

I saw a lot of birds 

here’s an osprey perched near me

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Nice try, Holden.

My feeder here in the Tampa Bay area has been slow this winter, just a few sparrows and doves. Got a resident Red-shouldered Hawk that's hunting every day now from the fence near the feeder, don't know if it's a deterrent. Here's a cool site, though
https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migration-maps/

I have had an uptick in birds at my house since I planted a pollination garden.

I have some host plants and an abundance of caterpillars and other insects.

All birds eat insects, especially when feeding their young.

Never had many birds in my neighborhood, buy my frogs are gone. I have a little pond by the front porch. Every spring tadpoles and frogs singing every night. Nothing this year. I really missed them.

I miss my old pal the Bob White.

I’m in Tampa Bay Area and I see plenty of birds - sandhill cranes, wild turkeys, hawks, vultures, at least 3 types of owls, ibises, cardinals, herons - the whole crew!

Maybe there is some issue in your immediate area, but we do not have a lack of birds here.

Not the biggest bird watcher but I love watching nature in general and I live by a lake in central Florida. I haven’t noticed a sharp decline but there seems to be a little less variety and I would chalk it up to a colder winter. The ones migrating for warmth will keep flying south if it’s too cold for them would be my best guess.

I think the drought is affecting where they are migrating to. I usually have to fill my feeders twice a week, i just threw the old seed out and refreshed hoping to see more birds. It’s so sad.

TONS of birds here in central Florida. Go to lake apopka. It’s part of the migratory path.

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I definitely see less birds up here in the panhandle.  But the pelicans?  They were having a feeding frenzy in Choctowatchee Bay this morning.  My golden retriever was very amused by it, though it doesn’t take much to amuse her.

Was driving the other morning, had the windows 1/2 down.  Heard lots of chirping from a stand of pines.  It was a wonderful sound.  Sounded like a large flock of grackles.

I noticed it since I moved back here in 1997 after having been in a different state. When I was a kid I used to love watching the birds return to the Everglades at dusk in their V formations. It's awful! I think a lot of it has to do with the boa constrictors that have taken over the Everglades.

Yes, I have lived along the Peace River in Punta Gorda for over twenty years. We used to have a lot of birds but after the duck hunters showed up, the birds went elsewhere. I miss them.

I noticed same until I got my active with seed and water and my perimeter is lots of trees : now I see more

Please, take the ones who keep shitting on my car! I hate them

Yes, I noticed less songbirds in my yard just east of Gainesville and l.less love ugs too....

Yes I’ve definitely noticed. I haven’t seen a Robin, Blue Jay or even a Mocking bird in ages. I see Bluebirds and Crows and finches. No more fireflies. Butterflies mostly in winter when they it spraying for mosquitoes

idk what you’re talking about i live in the middle of urban tampa and i saw an osprey just yesterday

Gone birding the last two weekends. Hella birds at lake Apopka. Hella birds in Ponce inlet. Got my lifer Purple Sandpiper

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I'm in North Louisiana and our birds have been gone for months all of them just here lately in the last couple weeks I've seen a few Cardinals a dove or two and a couple sparrows but normally I have all kinds of birds all year round cuz I feed them and the finches leave and come back in Spring but a few months ago all of them left. And my squirrels too come up missing I live in the woods and I've noticed a lack of squirrels I normally have dozens of them in my backyard cuz my dog keeps them running but I feed them too and they have just disappeared and I know my dog didn't get them cuz he would bring me them into the house.

Developments and cats.

West central Fl full of birds. Full! Crazy, even seeing parakeets in groups of 4 o 6

We have poisoned the birds by spraying every damn thing with pesticides and herbicides.  We have also left them very little food in the wild by developing land and building roads. Edit: Red Tide and pollution has decimated sea birds as well.

Birds are not real.

Just moved to Treasure Coast 4 months ago. Seen literally in my small 1/4 acre backyard: cardinals, Bluejays, turkey vultures, frogs, toads, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, snakes, wasps, hummingbird, and woodpecker. Guess they all migrated here.

They must have come to my neighborhood. There are about a billion crows, a few eagles, and some random egrets that overtake us and keep us very entertained.

The FBI is updating the hardware in their avian observation platforms. They're updating the charging "legs" to confirm with Qi-3 linear charging standards. Many of the People Inspecting Diversified General Espionage Over Network (Pidgeon) models are getting new wing actuators and updated caloric-conversion units to allow them to consume more GMO calories efficently. Birds aren't real. /s