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Not Winging It: Birders Hope Hard Data Will Help Save the Species They Love—and the Ecosystems Birds Depend On
Whether they’re staying for the summer or just passing through, birds are helping researchers study the environment and restore local habitats.
By Quinn Glabicki, PublicSource
The magnolia warbler travels as many as 2,000 miles, high above the Gulf of Mexico and across the entirety of the United States, before arriving in the cool climate of Canada’s boreal forest to breed. On a morning in May, one of the tiny yellow songbirds found itself entangled in a black net strung up in a clearing deep inside Pittsburgh’s Hays Woods. It had stopped here to rest and refuel, and the avian ecologist Nick Liadis fished the small bird from the mesh.
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