Vanishing Migratory Birds

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Several familiar songbird species have seen their numbers dying off in recent years. While their wintering grounds in South and Central America have been disrupted, so have their northern breeding grounds, and possibly many areas along the flyway. Scientists are studying the likely causes in a new study of New England’s Connecticut River Valley. Tatiana Schreiber reports.

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