Conspiracies Don’t Kill Birds. People, However, Do.

On average, 13.7 million birds die in the states every day. Even without humans, tens of millions of birds would be lost each year to natural predators and natural accidents — millions of fledglings die during their first attempts at flight. But according to the Fish and Wildlife Service, people have severely complicated the task of survival.  Millions of birds die each day from human causes: pesticides, cats, buildings, wires and more.