Monday 27 October 2014

Crowdsourcing and Satellites Give Migrating Birds 10K Acres of New Wetlands

Crowdsourcing and Satellites Give Migrating Birds 10K Acres of New Wetlands

When they're flying south for the winter, birds need to rest their weary wings—preferably somewhere with food and water. But due to California's agricultural development (not to mention its record-breaking drought), their preferred West Coast wetland stopovers are few and far between. So Matt Merrifield, a geographer with the Nature Conservancy of California, dove into […]


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via Science News

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