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  • @Optomisma
    @Optomisma หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    I walk three different woods .7 days a week , they are all nearly bare of wildlife ,all year round , I’m 68 , when I was a teenager they would have been bursting with life .(that’s not a rose tinted view) . Two years ago I counted 3 dozen dead bees within 50 yards of path next to farmers field , (anybody’s guess the number either side of path) I honestly believe we’ve had it ,but people just turn a blind eye ,we deserve everything that’s coming to us .

    • @Shane10871
      @Shane10871 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      YOU deserve everything that’s coming. With recent events with the CEO it’s obvious that the newer generations are tired of people prioritizing profits over the environment and health of the people.

    • @scotbrown1178
      @scotbrown1178 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@Optomisma 5G radiation

    • @bloggalot4718
      @bloggalot4718 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Optomisma spraying fields with chemicals for cows to eat is damaging insects and plant life. But profits before wildlife is the order of the day.

    • @senatorjosephmccarthy2720
      @senatorjosephmccarthy2720 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      And ye shall hear of
      wars
      and rumors of wars..
      For nation (ethnos) shall rise against nation (ethnos)
      and kingdom against kingdom;
      and there shall be
      famines
      and pestilences
      and earthquakes
      in diverse places.
      All these are
      The
      Begining of Sorrows.
      Matthew 24: 6, 7 and 8.
      Because the world's people disdain their Creator's laws.
      There are 7 Scriptures commanding the 7th Day Sabbath:
      Exodus 20 including v 10.
      Exodus 23: 12
      Exodus 31: 15 and 16
      Exodus 35: 2
      Leviticus 23: 3
      Genesis 2: 2 and 3.
      🔸Matthew 5: 18. Not One.
      There are Zero Scriptures commanding a weekly sun day observance. 0.
      Those cited as permission to do otherwise do not say nor mean that.
      For example,
      Acts 20: 7
      refers to the yearly Shavuot/Pentecost commanded in Leviticus 23.
      So
      Matthew 24: 4
      and
      Isaiah 59: 1 and 2
      are in effect.
      Leading to the
      Biggest Deception Ever:
      🔸Revelation 13
      and
      🔸Revelation 14.
      Leading to
      Matthew 24: 21 and 22.
      This Time Only One Change will work:
      🔹II Chronicles 7: 14🔹
      🔹Deuteronomy 28: 1 - 14🔹

    • @dogrudiyosun
      @dogrudiyosun 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      similar things in my country, Türkiye. we are fked. i cant tell the increase in bee deaths and decrease in bird sound compared to last year. its just horrifying.

  • @jimbøb-i9q
    @jimbøb-i9q 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +151

    In our efforts to protect crops from pests, we have poisoned our surrounding to a degree where food chains are breaking down.. This is just the beginning..

    • @jamesbyrne295
      @jamesbyrne295 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      It's weedkiller overuse in my haunts here in Ireland, no wildflowers in fields now just grass!

    • @jimbøb-i9q
      @jimbøb-i9q 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@jamesbyrne295 No food for insects = no food chain ..

    • @raclark2730
      @raclark2730 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Never to late to start putting botanical diversity back, anyone can can contribute.

    • @jimbøb-i9q
      @jimbøb-i9q 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@raclark2730 Unfortunately its not that easy .. lots of endemic species and local variants of species (of both plants and insects) have been lost already.. .. and the "anyone can contribute" part very often results in foreign plant species and variants (seeds) being used thereby actually worsening things..

    • @raclark2730
      @raclark2730 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@jimbøb-i9q Yes that is correct you must use local species from the local gene pool. That only requires research and or consultation with people that have local knowledge.
      Indeed many locations have established groups doing such work that anyone can volunteer for.
      This also opens up participation for people who do not have a space for growing.
      It is that easy.
      Do you want to help birds and insects or not.

  • @souma_sinharoy
    @souma_sinharoy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    It's a global phenomenon. In rural India I used to see Indian rollers, Red avadavat, Hoopoes etc on regular basis but nowadays thanks to overuse of pesticides and decrease in traditional farming methods their numbers are in steep decline 😞

    • @sarbsukhsingh8347
      @sarbsukhsingh8347 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where exactly in india are you talking about?

    • @Drbirder
      @Drbirder 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Its true , im from southern india and the bird population is declining because of the overuse of pesticides

    • @souma_sinharoy
      @souma_sinharoy วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@sarbsukhsingh8347Rural Bengal region, I am bird watching from a very young age and the number of birds plus species diversity both are in decline unfortunately.

  • @ghostmantagshome-er6pb
    @ghostmantagshome-er6pb หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I noticed as a kid how many insects would be stuck to our car.On long trips I'd check out any new specimens such as butterflies and moths. The cars I see now have no bugs. This is more than aerodynamics.

    • @LibertarianGalt
      @LibertarianGalt หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Didn't even think of this. Very true.

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      i've ridden for hours on my motorcycles, and caught few insects. in the 80s and 90s visor would be covered with insects after an evening ride

  • @tonyclack5901
    @tonyclack5901 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    On my organic farm in devon we have many wild birds, goldfinch, sky larks, thrushes, blackbirds and winter visitors redwing. We only cut for hay at the end of September. Have full wide mature, unflayed hedgerows and shoot squirels to protect young birds and their eggs, plus tree damage reduction and they eat well.

    • @noelfleming3567
      @noelfleming3567 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Well done to you ❤

    • @organickevinlondon
      @organickevinlondon 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I live in London and went on a 100% organic food diet way back in 1995,
      8 years ago I got a ground floor council flat with a reasonable sized garden,
      that I turned into an Urban Wildlife garden, nowadays in my garden, I get blue, great, coal and long tailed tits, goldfinches, wrens, robins, song thrushes, blackbirds, redwings (in winter), starlings, house sparrows, dunnocks, great spotted woodpeckers, occasional green woodpeckers and nuthatches, blackcaps, feral pigeons of course, wood pigeons, collard doves, carrion crows, magpies, jays, jackdaws, (I put fresh eggs out for the crows all year round, so they don't have to raid songbird nests so much)
      ring neck parakeets, sparrowhawks and peregrine falcons overflying too,
      (I've heard/seen greenfinches, chaffinches and pied wagtails in my local area)
      I put 2 wildlife ponds in my garden too, and have common frogs, common newts and palmate newts in the ponds, that get visited by emperor dragonflies, red and azure damselflies, I get about a dozen species of butterflies in this garden too,
      as I've got about 100 species of British native wildflower plants in my garden,
      you name it, its in my garden, snowdrops, bluebells, wild garlic, teasel, foxgloves, snakes head fritillaries, cuckoo pint, (in and around my 7 foot diameter wildlife pond, there are about 40 species of British native wildflowers), there's a woodpile in it and a hibernacula for the amphibians in the winter and the birdfeeders/bird tables are squirrel proofed, the amount of biodiversity in this small urban space about 6 miles from Central London is astounding.

  • @IssacDaniel-d4b
    @IssacDaniel-d4b 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    In the morning, the sound of chirping birds is really melodious, like a fairy tale when we live it..

    • @ThePoehladian
      @ThePoehladian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      100%

    • @mikerider58
      @mikerider58 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sadly 100,000 birds are killed each year in the UK 🇬🇧 by Wind Turbines Strikes but this comment will probably be blocked 🚫

    • @pyewackett5
      @pyewackett5 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@IssacDaniel-d4b
      Still go to work with chattering sparrows in the background , in the morning.
      Lovely ❤️
      Precious .

  • @josephinebennington7247
    @josephinebennington7247 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I’m 75, and a lifetime birdwatcher. British birds I used to see regularly, but no longer or very rarely …Yellowhammer, Linnet, Bullfinch, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Twite, Green woodpecker, GS Woodpecker, Little Owl, Kestrel, Reed Bunting, Corn Bunting, G and L Whitethroat, House Sparrow, Common Thrush, Partridge, Quail, Turtle Dove. That’s a lot gone from one human lifetime.
    What do I see? The omnivores, what I call the “so what?” species…e.g Corvids Jkdw Rk, Crw, W Pigeons, Ring necked Doves, R N parakeets, Kites, Starlings.
    I could go on. Tragic.

    • @noelfleming3567
      @noelfleming3567 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yes it's so sad I'm in d west of Ireland and it's nothing like it was 20 yrs ago all birdlife is getting less all d time

    • @danielobriot3116
      @danielobriot3116 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      All birds are declining in South east Nebraska 🇺🇲 even the English sparrows Insects too I feel like I was the only person who had noticed. Most people don't have a clue about this problem. Thank for taking notice 🙏

    • @OUTBOUND184
      @OUTBOUND184 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I live in the Chilterns and see a variety of woodpeckers, kestrels, and thrushes regularly. I saw some lapwings recently. Small consolation, I guess...

    • @josephinebennington7247
      @josephinebennington7247 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ Indeed. My consolation is access to the marshes of the Solway, where waders are, thankfully, numerous.

    • @augustseptember3503
      @augustseptember3503 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I agree, it's a heartbreaking scenario. I remember only 25 years ago seeing curlew, lapwing, linnet, yellow wagtail, redstart etc & those mentioned above, but no longer. About time conservation organisations such as wildlife & woodland trusts began protesting against the reasons for these declines!

  • @rory-l4i
    @rory-l4i หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    Being a bird aware person and a farmer I was well aware of the effect of silage harvesters on ground nesting birds. Also frogs and hedgehogs are in danger. .
    It was an excellent and well balanced documentary. Farmers are forced to except lower and lower farm gate prices for their produce, to satisfy city people and supermarkets low price policy.
    This forces farmers into larger and larger monoculture farming systems. This is having an enormous cost on biodiversity. Most farmers would love to see wild life return to their fields.

    • @LucyKelly-of6cu
      @LucyKelly-of6cu หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I would be willing to pay more for food, because I don't want to lose all of the wildlife! It is worth paying for!

    • @mujkocka
      @mujkocka หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I also visited a few rewinding project in Devon. It was inspiring

    • @LiamBolton-b8u
      @LiamBolton-b8u 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      As a sort of "city person" (I hate it), it is quite simply negligence of our people - everyone has this idea to just get on with life (what does that even mean in the city?), and if you're just getting on with life; you can't be doing any damage.
      It's just straight up negligence of the entire country and the media towards the natural world and those that sustain our entire country from it.
      I guess a couple years ago I would've been one of them too, I'm 25 now, so many factors at play here - but I think if everyone learnt the beauty of just one part of nature you can see the beauty in it all and thus, protect it.
      Bigger cards at play, all the tractors and everything you had down London protesting fairly recently I think it was - I only knew about it because Jeremy Clarkson was there, that's how much you're blocked out from the media, in my eyes. Crazy that the very barebones of our country are being screwed over.

  • @loiscutting1716
    @loiscutting1716 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    I live in the upper northeast in the United States where every summer I take care of a large flower garden. Birds here are not only scarce but so are pollinators. This summer I saw three honeybees, one bumblebee and one butterfly. The farmers apply tons of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides on fields, people also liberally use sprays outside so no wonder the birds and pollinators are gone. I wonder what we will be eating before long.

    • @glen.simpson
      @glen.simpson หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I have a couple huge azalea bushes here in NE usa... they appear to be a yearly measure of local bumble bee populations.... apparently huge variation exist.... early 2000's the bush would make the house hum. Then around 2014 or so you could hardly find any during flowing. Now, some, but nothing like 25 years ago....

    • @mewrongwayKOCXF
      @mewrongwayKOCXF หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We won't be eating Rabbits! When I was a teenager in the 70's Rabbits were a dozen an acre! Haven't seen one in 5 years!

    • @senatorjosephmccarthy2720
      @senatorjosephmccarthy2720 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My Bible says nothing. Millions will be eating nothing. Soon.
      Matthew 24, KJV.

    • @senatorjosephmccarthy2720
      @senatorjosephmccarthy2720 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@mewrongwayKOCXF. They're Rare here too.
      Coyotes
      Leviticus 11 applies.

    • @gordonemery6805
      @gordonemery6805 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I won't eat vegetables anymore because of herbicides and pesticides as these are absorbed into the vegetables, supermarket's are a lot to blame for insisting the vegetables are blemish free ...

  • @ioannisxiourouppa3212
    @ioannisxiourouppa3212 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I've noticed a lot of failed nests this year and severe lack of insects and no bees. I've also noticed the cloud seeding continuously all year , sometimes 2 or 3 times a day.
    Food for thought

    • @barryodowd6123
      @barryodowd6123 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cloud seeding has nothing to do with climate change ir wildlife decline. Watch the film

    • @ioannisxiourouppa3212
      @ioannisxiourouppa3212 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @barryodowd6123 climate change is a constant. Cloud seeding destroys the environment. Research cloud seeding in the Vietnam war and the studies done by the US after its use. The question is why destroy an environment on purpose. The uk doesn't need help with rain. ???

    • @Afe.j.69
      @Afe.j.69 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Geoengineering is prevalent.....watch the film the dimming. They are causing climate change by spraying...I have video to prove. Its not a conspiracy anymore.

    • @drumandbassob0007
      @drumandbassob0007 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@barryodowd6123 sure spraying chemicals out of planes into the sky does nothing to the environment its totally normal

    • @lucasleepwalker7543
      @lucasleepwalker7543 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you are falling for their plan.
      cloudseeding isnt a widespread thing, and when it is done it isn't destructive.
      the myths around supposed chemtrails come from industrial lobbyers to try and distract you from the real problems, the problems that they cause

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Extremely useful documentary and ecology & ecosystems protection advisor documentary... thanks for sharing

    • @get.factual
      @get.factual  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Our pleasure!

  • @PUSHPALATHANV-cw2lb
    @PUSHPALATHANV-cw2lb หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I am speechless😢 human has become threat for nature, birds and animals, my heart cries by seeing the damages caused by the greed of humans, awareness is extremely important to save this beautiful planet. Thanks for this eye opening documentary 🙏

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      save the planet ?? TOO LATE ALREADY

  • @bbtv28
    @bbtv28 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I love about nature, hope the channel will have more videos about this topic, especially about beautiful and charming birds.

    • @get.factual
      @get.factual  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      More to come!

    • @bbtv28
      @bbtv28 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@get.factual yes

  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    For about a year now I have been recording the activity in the Dove nest in the treetops across from my apartment balcony. Six pairs of chicks were raised there. Apparently only two chicks fell from the nest and died before they could learn to fly. All the others grew up and went off to live their Dove lives. Now the nest is empty, but it will soon be repaired again and my work of recording the reproductive development of my winged neighbors will continue. Why do I do this? Just for fun. And people like the photos and short videos too.

  • @Jo007kin
    @Jo007kin หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Britain's Birds have little chance in the 21st Century....12 Million Cats...40 Million vehicles...habitat loss...insect decline etc. By the end of this Century, most Birds that were very common in Britain when I was a kid in the '50s/'60s will be a rarity. 😔

    • @stevegray5709
      @stevegray5709 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Errr I agree but beg to slightly differ. As a child of all the 50's and a teen of the 60's many many birds that were very common to me then are ALREADY a rarity or even non-existant locally. Very sad.

    • @johnr.b.murray3417
      @johnr.b.murray3417 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Habitat destruction and poisons.

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@stevegray5709 i agree steve. scary how few birds and insects i see these days. glad i'm over seventy - the excrement is going in the aircon sooner than hoomans realise

    • @Billbo-r8o
      @Billbo-r8o 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes, too many do gooders protecting vermin, badger and otter numbers are totally out of control. People don't seem to understand why their numbers were kept to a minimum for years.

  • @54PIRATE
    @54PIRATE หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I live on the edge of the Romney marsh in Kent and can remember flocks of Lapwings and Plovers. The sky would be black with them but now we don’t see of either of those species anymore. Where have they all gone

  • @Nothing-kr5hn
    @Nothing-kr5hn หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Human,the most dangerous predator of all

  • @TERRANCE23
    @TERRANCE23 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Another big problem is wind turbines which are certainly NOT environmentally friendly.

  • @LucyKelly-of6cu
    @LucyKelly-of6cu หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    We must save nature! We want and need it!

    • @bloggalot4718
      @bloggalot4718 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@LucyKelly-of6cu Many birds feed on insects and we are spraying fields with chemicals to stop cows producing methane, and at the same time killing the birds food supply.

  • @ajmalhussain2733
    @ajmalhussain2733 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ❤❤❤ Very Beautiful and Informative Video. The ecology must be protected. Birds, Butterflies, Insects and Honey Bees etc play an extremely important role in our lives and they all need to be protected and taken care of.

  • @alanwayte432
    @alanwayte432 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am 58 yrs old, living in a village in Oxfordshire, as a Child we had open fields, walking around these fields there use to large numbers of Lapwings, the hedge rows would always contain a number of nests, and Pheasant/Partridge nests were always in the margins, in these fields you would find skylark nests. Having moved back to the village 30 years later I walk the same area and fields with my dog, you never see lapwings or Partridge nests at all, even the large trees you don’t see the large rookery. It’s all very sad and rather depressing

    • @richarda911
      @richarda911 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      In the fields of Cheshire I am appalled at the lack of wildlife.. Yellowhammers, Chaffinches, Hawfinches... All gone

  • @mahmoodmalik4202
    @mahmoodmalik4202 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The government should strictly order the installation of sensors in front of harvesting machines that can detect living things so that these innocent animals of nature are not brutally killed.

  • @johnkeenlyside993
    @johnkeenlyside993 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Lapwings, skylarks and curlews were the soundtrack of my childhood. I still live in the country but havent heard one for years

    • @haitch04
      @haitch04 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      As a child in the 1940's 50's I lived high in the Pennines and there was an abundance of Curlews and Lapwings arriving each summer to nest with Skylarks aplenty climbing into the sky and singing. Sadly their distinctive calls are no longer.

  • @Hippy-l1e
    @Hippy-l1e 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Read the book Silent Spring.

  • @jimrichards3916
    @jimrichards3916 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Well presented. Very true and a wake up call. It maybe too late though!

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      deffo too late

  • @frederickwoof5785
    @frederickwoof5785 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember seeing skylarks, lapwings when I was a kid, in Hornchurch, East of London. This was in the 1960's. Also newts in a field even closer to London.😢

    • @derekupson4489
      @derekupson4489 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Irony being the the RSPB has a fetish with anything that kills song birds.

  • @finaboykm
    @finaboykm หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Here in the heartland of Ca, I don’t have grass in the back nor front yard. The backyard is a zen type koi pond with matured bamboo and a sky high redwood. Birds love to nest wherever they want and even had a blue heron land on the footbridge-decided the koi were too big. The front yard is a hodgepodge meadow of a variety perennials where the bees/butterflies/hummingbirds/ other birds find all their needs. It’s a safe cat proof/ no ambushing via my dogs behavior where the birds can come and go when they please. I gladly accept that a percentage of my fruit will have peeking holes from the birds seeking some pulpy fiber and sweet juices plus they munch on any climbing insects. It’s a safe/friendly space for the feathered . Plus I don’t use pesticides at all…

    • @reneeb.2702
      @reneeb.2702 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I wish this would become a hugh thing as big as the grass lawn in neighborhoods. We try to have all different kinds of flowers, wildflowers, multiple water sources (including a shallow source for littles)Different food sources. We are blessed to have acres of uncut woods & a pond. When we have to downsize, our new neighbors will be surprised😂

  • @jonomusoman
    @jonomusoman หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Come Wellington New Zealand! We’re collectively removing huge amounts of rats, stoats and invasive predators from our region, with the result being the only major city in the world where biodiversity is increasing! I have a forest next to my house. The morning and dawn choruses are amazing!

  • @PaulBoden-d7p
    @PaulBoden-d7p หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's amazing how quickly this has happened. I moved into my current place less than 20 years ago. I planted a bed with borage to fill up a corner. It attracted such a multitude and variety of insects you could hear the buzz from 50 yards away. Now you've got more chance of seeing a unicorn in my garden that a bee or hoverfly.

  • @MumtazAhmad-oi4fl
    @MumtazAhmad-oi4fl หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cute and beautiful birds,and flowers .

  • @andymcbey5378
    @andymcbey5378 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    No wildlife round the farms here only.foxes badger and carrion and buzzards and you wonder why song birds and grey partridge suffer so badly

    • @istvanglock7445
      @istvanglock7445 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Predators and prey have always co-existed. No-one has to wonder why song birds and grey partridge suffer so badly - this video offers part of the reason.

    • @istvanglock7445
      @istvanglock7445 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@grahamrankine8017
      Yes, but you're rather biased and would inevitably view things from a narrow perspective. You can be sure that ministers get information many varied sources before making decisions that may potentially affect people's livelihoods. Just because you don't like or agree with their decisions doesn't mean they're wrong when looked at from a broader perspective than just yours.

  • @kxmalahov
    @kxmalahov 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I work in Tesco Distribution centre in Bathgate, Scotland I was going home, missed my bus. just thought to cut my travelling time and went on the field next to the warehouse. Lapwing chick just came from no where and her mums, dads started to attack. common buzzard is everywhere, I love them. If you will go round loch Leven in October, you will meet thousands and thousands of birds. Will watch now. thanks for the video!!

  • @rualert1602
    @rualert1602 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    When I moved into my neighborhood in Portland, Oregon 44 years ago the mornings were full of birdsong. Now, nothing. Not a peep.

    • @istvanglock7445
      @istvanglock7445 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When I moved into my neighbourhood in Calgary, Canada 41 years ago the Summer evening skies were always full of swallows. Now, rarely seen.

  • @mikerider58
    @mikerider58 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wind Turbines are responsible for 100,000 bird Strikes per year.
    Media would have us believe farmers are responsible but can we believe anything the media say.
    Sadly NO ONE ever mentions Wind Turbines but the reality is, birds are attracted to them as a potential landing sites which inevitably ends in death.
    I wasn't surprised to hear NO mentioned about Wind Turbines in this video.
    Our farm lands are beautiful, they supply us with excellent food and are a rich haven for birds 🐦 humans and all kinds of wildlife.

  • @mariumrajah
    @mariumrajah หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lovely documentary really enjoyed watching
    Support the Farmers ❤

  • @joedisco
    @joedisco 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wise and detailed documentary. If only our politicians and agribusiness bosses would take a moment to understand these issues and act accordingly.

  • @lindaparkin61
    @lindaparkin61 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Insects have also declined, when you drive down countrywide lanes. Your car used to be covered in insect, now nothing on your cars.

  • @arunilk4042
    @arunilk4042 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nature is wonderful n beautiful once very sad to see.
    Am from Sri Lanka.

  • @streetcat1510
    @streetcat1510 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    All my misplaced and and biased opinions on this problem have been addressed, Thanks 👏🏻

  • @rolffigueiredo3786
    @rolffigueiredo3786 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It's unfair to say about the farmers alone. In London this year, I didn't see a single sparrow, black and white wagtails,wrens , black birds nothing. Instead there's seagulls, crows, magpies and parakeets. .. Sad times indeed .

  • @wildhorizonca
    @wildhorizonca 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The images and messages in the film really make viewers think about the impact of humans on nature. 🌍💔 A meaningful reminder to take action to protect the environment! 🌿✨

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      TOO LATE ................... WAAAAAAAAY TOO LATE

  • @pyewackett5
    @pyewackett5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I feed birds. For 3 consecutive years every autumn I've welcomed the return of Bobo - the little yellow wagtail. She hasn't returned this year sadly.

  • @trevor1961
    @trevor1961 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Interesting video, thank you 👍

  • @jamesreed-v6i
    @jamesreed-v6i หลายเดือนก่อน

    Simply beautiful and awesome as it is painfully sad in its import.....

  • @BKKNOW1
    @BKKNOW1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Where I live the Grey Partridge Skylarks and Lapwings have all gone, a lot to do with this is how the farmers farm the land plus the tractors mowing in the middle of when they are making their nest, the sad part about this when they are gone they won't be coming back, if something is not done now.
    I have noticed a big decline in the garden birds too.

  • @rgsnr8702
    @rgsnr8702 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    lapwings used to be a common sight but crop spraying has destroyed them along with our failure to cull magpies crows rooks and foxes

  • @LennartGustafsson-y8k
    @LennartGustafsson-y8k 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    And the insekts ??????Insekts are food to meny birds

    • @cowboykelly6590
      @cowboykelly6590 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      😢 Yes

    • @jamesrooney7902
      @jamesrooney7902 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Try spellchecker

    • @LennartGustafsson-y8k
      @LennartGustafsson-y8k 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jamesrooney7902 thanks

    • @EdwinaHorse
      @EdwinaHorse 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@jamesrooney7902 you can tell by the name that this person's first language probably isn't English. I wonder if you can understand more than one language

  • @haitch04
    @haitch04 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I live in Lincolnshire and when I first moved into my house 11 yrs ago there was an abundance of swallows and swifts each year with House Martins nesting under the eaves. These diminished each year until not a single bird of these species has been seen over the last 3 years. We also had a cuckoo calling each year and that has now stopped. Huge decreases in bees and butterflies indicate something is very wrong.

  • @Thecrowcraftsman
    @Thecrowcraftsman 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Funny, here in Kathmandu farm birds dont seem to be decreasing, if anything they're increasing. Especially true, in my opinion, with the cattle egret, black kite, common pigeon, blue throat barbet, jungle myna, common myna, house crow and even some sorts of munia. None of them are invasive, either. Offcourse some, like the hoopoe, many types of ducks and geese, cranes, storks, some small songbirds, a few gamebirds, vultures, large raptors etc, are becoming increasingly rare. I guess farming techniques habent changed much in the last hundred years around here, unlike in other countries.

    • @abcdjkx
      @abcdjkx หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most of those birds on your list are among the few species that thrive in a globalized world heavily altered by man, a bit like rats and cockroaches. They're not an indicator of a healthy environment.

  • @ShakesSphere
    @ShakesSphere 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Cats and HAWKS. I'm located in an urban area along Lake Erie. There are numerous Coopers Hawks here, more and more every year, plus the red taileds and pigeon hawks. But each Coopers will snatch and consume 3-4 songbirds A DAY..We have 3 Coopers just running a 2 block area, including my yard. And they stay all winter here..and peck off the tired and hungry migratories, as well. They DO NOT bother with the house sparrows, preferring our diminishing species. HAWKS, WINDOWS, NIGHTTIME LIGHTING, and YOUR WELL FED CAT out for kicks. That's over 3,000 songbirds, woodpeckers, etc, per year..just around my yard, from 3 of the HAWKS alone. (They spitefully use our tree for feasting, so I'm well aware of their over population and damage)

    • @md.yusufabdullahharun3764
      @md.yusufabdullahharun3764 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wow, lucky man

    • @james-faulkner
      @james-faulkner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not sure when to use all caps I see.

    • @nazuddin6346
      @nazuddin6346 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ok shakespere Albert

    • @jamesbyrne295
      @jamesbyrne295 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I get a tiny hint of misunderstood speciesism😅, hawks population is regulated by available bird population and part of natural ecosystem, but cats I agree do have a very bad impact on populations, and are non native .
      Farm practices here locally reduce amount of wildflowers with roundup, with hedgerow edge spayed too .Fields that once had many species per meter now have one or two grass species that are planted.
      Mono culture fields forests etc ,it's sickening to me as a hunter to see the land demise in twenty years here in Ireland 🇮🇪

    • @md.yusufabdullahharun3764
      @md.yusufabdullahharun3764 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@jamesbyrne295 😔

  • @usamakhalid9703
    @usamakhalid9703 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Europe should go back to its Old times when people lived in harmony with nature

    • @tonyclack5901
      @tonyclack5901 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Would you be prepared to pay double for your food because thats what it would mean or you farm organically as I do with a smaller market for more expensive production and a reduction in quantity. With the building on farm land a rediculous new regs about bio-diversity and carbon offset, farms are dumping grounds for building site offsets and as a result our food production land is reduced two fold.

    • @farmer_donny
      @farmer_donny หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      To do that, the population would have to reduce greatly and be prepared to do a lot more physical work.

    • @sarbsukhsingh8347
      @sarbsukhsingh8347 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@farmer_donnythere must be way.

    • @drumandbassob0007
      @drumandbassob0007 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@farmer_donny or maybe not throw away 50% of the food the farmers currently make might be a start instead of trying to cull the population

    • @farmer_donny
      @farmer_donny หลายเดือนก่อน

      @drumandbassob0007 if we go back to a time when we can live with nature, we won't be able to afford to waste anything. But I agree waste is a sin.

  • @mikecampbell7421
    @mikecampbell7421 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I am 63 and in my lifetime our wildlife has been decimated. It is so sad and so so short sighted. We are mostly stupid and greedy and it will end us.

  • @sahiljoya4386
    @sahiljoya4386 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So beautifully ❤❤❤❤

  • @mountaincruiser817
    @mountaincruiser817 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Here in the Netherlands all the birds are gone because of the pesticides that kill all the bugs. So the birds have lost there food. A view weeks ago a studie came out that over 90% of commercial birdfeed have toxic pesticides in it. Things are getting bleaker by the minute these days. 😢

  • @richardrogers4335
    @richardrogers4335 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Birds of prey have been widely reintroduced and doted upon . They're eating everything available

    • @nwogamesalert
      @nwogamesalert หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Nonsense.

    • @Js-gs4ti
      @Js-gs4ti หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It’s the cats more than birds of prey.

  • @lynettehardy8653
    @lynettehardy8653 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We have recently returned, ( on our old sail boat) from two seasons in the Caribbean, are still astounded by the bird life in the U.K., especially around the coasts, the Caribbean is almost devoid of any bird life, I don’t know why, maybe you know?

  • @susmith7837
    @susmith7837 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The only places you see swallows in summer are over villages in Suffolk. Pest and herbicides have driven them from the fields there are no insects to hunt.

    • @7485D
      @7485D หลายเดือนก่อน

      No cattle either. No cattle. No insects

  • @FAS1948
    @FAS1948 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Where have all the birds gone? It's a question I've been asking for years. I remember my mother complaining of corncrakes keeping us awake all night in rural East Sussex, and now you have to go to the outer resches of Scotland to hear them.

  • @vannessar32
    @vannessar32 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Badgers have a lot of ground nesting birds. in the village where I used to live ,40 years there was only 2 setts because of local farmers controlling them. Since it became illegal to destroy badgers, our number of setts increased to 15+. what does friendly mr Brock eat ?. anything he can get down him. In towns it's a combination of domestic cats and corvids nest raiding.

  • @derekupson4489
    @derekupson4489 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Every day in my garden hawk's are killings song birds,we are living next to open fields and large woodlands and the birds are being decimated by sparrow hawk's. Bird feeders we now call hawk stations and obviously stopped using them.

    • @paulcousier927
      @paulcousier927 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Too many hawks

    • @tonypinch2737
      @tonypinch2737 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Too many hawks

    • @nwogamesalert
      @nwogamesalert หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have a sparrow hawk visiting every day, but it doesn't seem to decimate the bird population on my feeders the least. Also; these birds of prey have territories, so it is very unlikely that more than two individuals will visit your garden regularly.

  • @NatMart9394
    @NatMart9394 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    an imposed unmanaged 3 metre berm border around the perimeter of each farmed field would Replace the removed hedgrows, allowing protective growth of rare flowers, vegetation, insects, attracting birds and other natural wildlife.

  • @TheSpecialCostumeShop
    @TheSpecialCostumeShop หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the skylarks in my area are almost all but gone due to building on their nesting sites

  • @Freedom2111
    @Freedom2111 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Human overpopulation is the reason - greater demand for food, more intensive farming, higher use of pesticides, loss of habitat.

    • @senatorjosephmccarthy2720
      @senatorjosephmccarthy2720 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No it isn't.
      It's humans making
      money and gold
      their gods.
      Instead of the Almighty Creator.
      Exodus 20 including v 10.
      Exodus 23: 12
      Exodus 31: 15 and 16
      Exodus 35: 2
      Leviticus 23: 3
      Genesis 2: 2 and 3.
      🔸Matthew 5: 18.
      Not One.

  • @someblokecalleddave1
    @someblokecalleddave1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm 1.24 in - opening credits. I reckon the answer to this is loss of habitat. The places I used to go to as a kid in the 1970's birdwatching in Industrial South Essex - they've all pretty much gone. There wasn't many of them and there were huge industrial complexes in between , but the bits of marsh, reedbeds, open rough grass areas all now under industrial or urban developments. Gonna watch it now and see what they say...

    • @danyoutube7491
      @danyoutube7491 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think you are right. Whenever I hear from organisations that have done research on this and wildlife protection organisations like the RSPB, the stated number one cause of decline is habitat loss.

  • @richardtiiird8464
    @richardtiiird8464 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We need to do more to protect the birds . Farmers need to either live with the change or we replace them with friendlier ones.

  • @transplant-f3p
    @transplant-f3p 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Some creatures can sense natural disasters in advance. When I lived in Alabama, and birds stopped using my bird feeder, I knew bad weather was coming. They quit feeding days before a hurricane arrived.

  • @peterbuckley5204
    @peterbuckley5204 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Back in the 60s to the rear of our house was lime beds where waste lime was dumped by local chemical works at evening the noise from the birds was amazing if they got disturbed by a fox .There was curlews lapwings gulls amounting to thousands. The beds are still there but the birds have long gone

  • @shihtzusrule9115
    @shihtzusrule9115 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Makes me want to quit using milk for cooking and cereal. I don't drink it. Those two fawns. JSMH. if I had to choose i know what it'd be.

    • @allolobophorus
      @allolobophorus หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.

  • @frankdooley12
    @frankdooley12 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No insects, no ground nesting birds. Areas without any silage cutting have suffered similar fates so the reduction in the insects must be responsible. In the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s having driven from Dublin to the West of Ireland to fish on our return we would have to wash our windscreen, headlights and number plates from the huge numbers of insect strikes but that is no longer the case. Something happened around the early 00s that resulted in a massive kill off of insects.

    • @nwogamesalert
      @nwogamesalert หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Something happened around the early 00s that resulted in a massive kill off of insects." Agree. And the only new thing I can think of which could be the reason is the WiFi, G4 & G5 electronic communication signals and related.

    • @Funkywallot
      @Funkywallot หลายเดือนก่อน

      glyphosate (Round -Up) was first introduced in 1974 and spred like crazy in 15 years time to everywhere on the planet.
      Glyphosate inhibits melanization and increases susceptibility to infection in insects , reproductive issues in various species and killing of food sources for farmland wild life ( Among them : Birds) AND is carcenogenic to humans.
      Some nations have banned Glyphsfate, but the progress is not nearly enough to protect wild life and humans on any scale

  • @joycehaines2055
    @joycehaines2055 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for explaining why we are a failing society.

  • @mercury8180
    @mercury8180 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fox crow magpie raven badger have digested all the birds. No predator control no birds ( ground nesting in particular)

    • @Billbo-r8o
      @Billbo-r8o 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Squirrels and otters are also out of control.

    • @kenneth9874
      @kenneth9874 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Cats get more than all the others

  • @harrylyme2913
    @harrylyme2913 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Twenty years ago a car would be covered in dead insects if you drove during the Spring to Autumn period. Now very few insects. Next the birds go then what comes next?

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Same story with motorcycle helmet visor ................. now summer evening rides are mainly insect free

  • @nyshkominternational7085
    @nyshkominternational7085 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent. Should be compulsory viewing for all schools and all public officials

  • @vandanananwani6658
    @vandanananwani6658 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Absolutely heart breaking to see the poor fawns die accidentally 😢😢

    • @richardrogers4335
      @richardrogers4335 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's why they put them in the documentary . You have no way of knowing if these animals were killed by machinery

    • @danyoutube7491
      @danyoutube7491 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@richardrogers4335 ...Why not go further in your denial - maybe the fawns were 'paid actors', lol

  • @jackcreegan5192
    @jackcreegan5192 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No insects, no food, no birds,

  • @ian500i
    @ian500i หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There are a lot more badgers around now which will decimate ground nesting birds

    • @Billbo-r8o
      @Billbo-r8o 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Otters are doing the same around the rivers, people think they eat just fish.

  • @RobSoap-i7t
    @RobSoap-i7t หลายเดือนก่อน

    This year in the lovely Scottish Borders I observed a very huge reduction in insect life including those pesky late summer wasps Have never seen the like ! This is bound to have an effect on our Bird life

  • @Midlifer69
    @Midlifer69 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    And yet the big concern is global warming whilst the decimation of our countryside I feel is a far more pressing concern , largely ignored by the media and powers that be . The rewilding of our countryside is long overdue

  • @johnturner3301
    @johnturner3301 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We used to have lots of wild birds in our garden in the middle of a large housing estate, now sadly just Magpies as beautiful as they are they just kill every thing.

  • @quocvietha5151
    @quocvietha5151 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It is heartbreaking to witness the destruction of a way of life that disregards the interconnectedness of all living natural creatures, including bacteria, insects, and human beings, in favor of material wealth and the advancement of our current society.

  • @TRguy64
    @TRguy64 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Here in my part of western Canada, the bird numbers have as well drastically crashed! Just a few summers ago there would always be at least four pairs of American robins fighting it out for nesting in my large two acre yard, this past summer there was but one single pair. As well house wrens, always all four nesting boxes would be filled, but two years ago not even a single pair had been seen and rarely even one heard singing in the distance. The following summer one or two did nest, but again in '24 it was back to none! When I was a kid growing up in the '70's, birds of all types abounded, as well so did things such as fireflies, sadly now it's becoming the very silent spring that had been predicted!

    • @TheBasedCanadian
      @TheBasedCanadian หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chinesse are catching and eating them

  • @abrarcheema9105
    @abrarcheema9105 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤beautiful birds 🐦

  • @aimanhafiz4621
    @aimanhafiz4621 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So sad see many years bird in rural area start decline😢😢

  • @raven3212
    @raven3212 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Here we are in the mid winter, and all we see are endless grey skies, no sunshine, no bright frosty mornings, the acrid smell in the air, thick suffocating fog you could almost cut, it's so dense, this is pretty much every day. People are getting sick, insects are scarce, flowers and plants barely grow..This is not only down to pesticides being sprayed, it's what's being pumped into the air, in the name of climate control.

  • @gdreading9088
    @gdreading9088 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Just look at the state of our rivers, terrible

    • @Billbo-r8o
      @Billbo-r8o 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ours are full of otters, they kill all the young birds. There's a video out there of one killing a full grown greylag goose.

  • @MattLTT
    @MattLTT 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    RE: the end of the video - what can normal people do to support farmland birds? What foods should we/should we not be eating? I'm assuming a reduction of meat intake and increased organic food intake would help?

  • @kenblakeley9940
    @kenblakeley9940 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This disaster is ongoing, the title of this chapter is Monstersanto.

  • @tedvoise7964
    @tedvoise7964 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    missing birds are not the problem,same w/ amphibians,insects etc...their absence is a symptom of "the problem";too much insecticide and herbicide use is destroying the underpinnings of the ecosystem and if simple things like invertebrates,bacterial,fungal,algal,phyto/macro-plankton life can't thrive then that effect travels up through the food chain

  • @lisam501
    @lisam501 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A cowcatcher, also known as a pilot, is the device mounted at the front of a locomotive to deflect obstacles. Make this tool for deer and birds

  • @patnielsennielsen5340
    @patnielsennielsen5340 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Live 25 miles from Atlanta. Just this morning I heard sparrows in my bushes hawks are abundant as well as blue jays and an occasional cardinal!

  • @thomastjg53
    @thomastjg53 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Were I live at one point in time they was lots of birds . Pheasants were all around here on farm land. Then they disappear, the DNR try to reintroduce them but the ones that were released disappeared kind of quickly to. Pesticide spray, or some other kind of problem, don’t know. This was in the late 80’s.

  • @muckyguru
    @muckyguru หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in a wood on the edge of Leeds, over the last 20 numbers have dropped to almost zero

  • @Sami-Nasr
    @Sami-Nasr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very true, I used to live in the Great Sahara, now I live in the Green Sahara

  • @ataleen8313
    @ataleen8313 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Why not developing sensor,,,laser,,,sound tracking technology to remove birds and animals before machine mowing?

  • @martyn6792
    @martyn6792 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've noticed the lack of mainly songbirds in the garden which backs onto an old orchard, used to have loads of robins, blackbirds and tit family but hardly see any now

  • @Phoenixअभय
    @Phoenixअभय 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    51:27 .... Their survival.....this is why the world needs to embrace and practice veganism.

  • @stephenbirch9566
    @stephenbirch9566 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The dawn chorus used to be so loud now so quite,what have we done.

  • @jamesthomas7928
    @jamesthomas7928 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some 70 years ago I used to take my dogs for walks in the fields and spend time lying on my back listening to adn watching skylarges and so many other breeds it was hard to count. I have read that windfarms are killers of large number of birds and when actually counted by dogs the numbers are huge. That's not great for this species which gave so much pleasure

  • @ramthian
    @ramthian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Missing you guys 👌 😊!.

  • @Simon-wk1yk
    @Simon-wk1yk หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wildlife doesn't stand a chance with humans on the planet sadly ...