Greatest threat to eastern forest birds is habitat loss on wintering grounds

Monday, July 24, 2017 - 15:32 in Earth & Climate

Within the next few decades, human-caused habitat loss looms as the greatest threat to some North American breeding birds. The problem will be most severe on their wintering grounds, according to a new study published today in the journal Global Change Biology. By the end of this century, the study's authors say predicted changes in rainfall and temperature will compound the problem for birds that breed in eastern North America and winter in Central America. 

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