As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Saturday 3 January 2015

Forest bird population crashes

By John Myers on Jan 2, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.

DULUTH, Minn. — The number of birds counted each summer on Minnesota’s Chippewa and Superior National Forests nearly doubled from 1994 to 2009 but crashed by 30 percent this year after back-to-back cold, late springs.
And the legacy of this year’s poor nesting season could last into next year, with fewer chicks hatched this summer and even fewer birds returning to be counted in 2015.

That’s the conclusion of the annual Summary of Breeding Bird Trends released recently by researchers at the Natural Resources Research Institute of the University of Minnesota Duluth.

The number of total birds counted in the survey, now in its 20th season, has moved up and down in fits and spurts but has trended up over the long haul.

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