How Climate Change Could Push a Now Common Bird to Extinction (IMAGE)

USDA Forest Service - Northern Research Station

How Climate Change Could Push a Now Common Bird to Extinction

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The Acadian Flycatcher is a common bird in the Central Hardwood Region of the Midwest, but effects of climate change, including decreased breeding productivity and increased nest predation, may put the bird on the edge of extinction by the year 2100.

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Andrew Cox, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

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