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Since the 1970s, North America has lost 30 percent of its birds, equivalent to three billion birds, due largely to habitat loss. Audubon’s science shows that two-thirds of the remaining North American bird species are at risk of extinction from climate change. Here in Washington, 70 species of shorebirds, waterfowl, marsh birds, and seabirds rely on Puget Sound during some part of their annual cycle, with natural areas across Snohomish County critical nesting and breeding grounds. Since moving from Bothell to Edmonds in 1993, I have witnessed the dramatic decline in birds out on the Sound.
