Date: 5/18/26 12:36 pm From: Canterbury, Ronald (canterrd) <00000951b275ca19-dmarc-request...> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Dead cuckoos
All,
As I struggle to find time and ways to catch up the Ohio Cardinal, I again beg folks to stay with OOS, I'm trying, but always too much on me. I write today to say we had five Yellow-billed Cuckoos dead on our avian mortalities (Lights out Cincinnati) routes today. Never so many at once.
Given their massive influx last night, I'd easily bet, based on the number of buildings that kill birds in the greater Cincinnati region, that we humans with our "glorious non-stop development", "lovely $5 gas", and daily greed that we killed over 100 cuckoos last night/morning flight, and millions of birds throughout North American just last night alone.
Well, today's haul: nearly 15 birds so far! Six Bay-breasted Warblers past two days!
Anyone, I am only sending this email to notify birders to take the problem more seriously and consider that silent spring is approaching faster than once predicted! The southwestern race of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo is already endangered. More painful (for me) casualties lately have been Kentucky Warbler and Canada Warbler.
I apologize for my depressing rant!
Good birding, all, enjoy, they are disappearing fast! I can speak from experience having witnessed the loss of entire Golden-winged Warbler populations!
Ronald A. Canterbury
Editor, The Ohio Cardinal
Research Ornithologist
Associate Academic Director
University of Cincinnati
Department of Biological Sciences
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0006
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