Buzz (and others)
Bad science is discounting a likely potential source of population pressure for no reason without actually testing to determine it's validity. If that investigation then discounts the source well and good. Animal populations everywhere are under a multitude of pressures. Of course birds are no different and if your population is not recovering then obviously the current critical pressure has not been identified. But there is no way for anyone to see into the past and discount any prior source of pressure unless a proper evaluation was done at that time.
Bad science is bad science and after the fact suppositions do not absolve it.
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