Here is the question, How Would the World Be Affected if Birds Were Extinct? One way I could think of is I would no longer be looking at the ground for bird droppings to know where to walk.
birds eat alot of insects. and other little creapy animals. whitout birds those can become a big problem. example is the "Four Pests Campaign" in 1958 in china. they asked all the chinese to kill all sparrows. wich turned out to be a big mistake and the death for many people
birds eat alot of insects. and other little creapy animals. whitout birds those can become a big problem. example is the "Four Pests Campaign" in 1958 in china. they asked all the chinese to kill all sparrows. wich turned out to be a big mistake and the death for many people
That's an interesting test, though sadly an almost permanent test... So they do help alot since they eat bugs, surprising how someone eating something has benifits other than the eater stays alive.
They contribute to the food cycle. As well as insects, they also help the clean up of rodents. Some birds (Hummingbird, i believe?) help the process of pollination. Not to mention they help fertilize some plants.
Not to mention some birds (on farms) provide livelihood and income to many people.
surprising how someone eating something has benifits other than the eater stays alive.
nature is very vulnerable. if you take away 1 part of it it has effect on other things. for example is the bible/Book of Exodus talking about the 10 Plagues of egypt. (they say it's gods doing) but there is actualy scientific proof(this is just a short fast list for the full explaining you can check the tv show from national geographic about it) for what realy happend. it was a normale reaction of nature in the for of disasters.
pointless.... so you proved that it COULD happen... so? and if you proved that it DID happen then other things that arent posibble would HAVE to happen too so you accidently proved religion... but lets forget about that.
as you said in the first comment also the animals that eat the birds would die leading to more then just the birds being extinct. as humans we also get ideas from nature... who knows maybe we wouldnt even invent planes if we didnt have birds to watch.
as you said in the first comment also the animals that eat the birds would die leading to more then just the birds being extinct. as humans we also get ideas from nature... who knows maybe we wouldnt even invent planes if we didnt have birds to watch.
I don't think any creatures have a specialty on birds, so that wouldn't make too much of a difference, but I think there will be an overpopulation of insects and soon, anything that preys on insects (actualy it wouldn't be overpopulation, it would be more like, filling in the hole that was left by the birds)
i proved that the story is not 100% fictional. but that the reason they give. (and the only reason they always give (god did it)) is wrong. it could happen whitout the use of god aswell. (and i used this scientific proof as a example for what can happen whit nature when the balance is changed.
i also dare to say that the story of jesus is not 100% fictional. i believe there was a guy called jesus. but the story about him has changed to much over time to be truet. (just like robin hood)
anyway this is off-topic.
as you said in the first comment also the animals that eat the birds would die leading to more then just the birds being extinct.
do you have a example of a animal that only eats birds? i think not 1 animal does that because birds are to hard to catch. and so other animals are able to eat other meat then birds aswell.
If birds were gone, nature would adapt and rebalance. Nearly every other type of animal would be affected, likely in a negative way, but eventually it would be a new 'normal'.
do you have a example of a animal that only eats birds?
I think there's a large spider in the tropics that does, but it would likely adapt to other animals.
ow and btw. i never said such thing.
"they asked all the chinese to kill all sparrows. wich turned out to be a big mistake and the death for many people" I think he misinterpreted that.
I think there's a large spider in the tropics that does, but it would likely adapt to other animals.
i know that spiders can catch medium birds. but didn't think there was 1 that does it only. (crazy tropic =P ) but as you said. it most likely will adapt to other animals.
I think he misinterpreted that.
i guess so. but then we (humans) are that animal that only eats birds? =S
and he missed the link about the insects and the insects eating the crops of humans wich made the people die. (the people didn't die as a direct result of the sparrows being killed.)
birds play a major role. true, many of them can be considered pests (pigeons, and the texas grachal for one), but even then they play major parts in the ecosystems. sure nature can adapt, but the beginning stages will cause chaos due to the overpopulation of insects eating our crops, invading our homes, etc.
point is, everything in the food web is there for a reason, to change it is to destroy it.
do you have a example of a animal that only eats birds? i think not 1 animal does that because birds are to hard to catch. and so other animals are able to eat other meat then birds aswell.
Birds aren't the only things that do what birds do. Non-avian animals eat, pollinate, and do whatever ecological thing that's done by our feathered friends. Bugs pollinate plants and get eaten by mammals and amphibians. On the other side of that, animals eat birds and their eggs. Yes, they eat things other than birds and their eggs, but the removal of the birds means that the same number of non-bird predators are having to hunt down just as many if not more non-bid prey to survive. Things just don't die of starvation without a fight. To accommodate for the loss of a certain food item in the buffet (the buffet in this instance is stuff that you actually will choose to eat) there will be more of the other items eaten. If you take away something that eats something off of the buffet and don't introduce something new to replace it(or increase its consumption by something that already eats it), then that item on the buffet is going to keep increasing in amount.
w/o the pollination of certain plants that may be exclusively pollinated by certain types of birds... those plants will go extinct (w/o our help). I saw a discovery channel episode where there's this tropical island cliff that has a certain plant that lives on a cliff. It's evolved to be pollinated by either a bird or a bug of some kind... that particular critter is apparently no longer with us, b/c we can't find it. We're having to develop tools and instruments so that we can pollinate that plant so it doesn't die off.
It'd be a little more dull for me. I enjoy listening to birds sing.
...and if storks weren't around, then how would the babies get here? O_o
Another thing to consider is if this was a slow extinction or fast. If it was slow the ecosystem can more gradually compensate for their loss. If quickly we would see an imbalance before something could fill h birds role.
