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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD

Legacy of racist US housing policies extends even to bird data
"....Ellis-Soto and his team studied bird sightings in more than 9,000 neighbourhoods, covering almost 200 US cities....
“You can better predict where you have data on birds based on systemic racism — redlining maps from 1933 — than climate, tree cover or population density, everything a bird should actually care about”

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

Observations of birds are relatively scarce in neighbourhoods that were redlined, or designated as risky for mortgage lending, in the 1930s. Nine pigeons on traffice light pole against blue sky with signs for 1st Street and no u-turns.
Sep 10, 2023, 01:47 PM·Public
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