New data show the populations of some of America's well-known birds in a tailspin, thanks to the one-two punch of habitat fragmentation and, increasingly, global warming.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/061507EA.shtml

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Common Birds In Decline
http://www.audubon.org/bird/stateofthebirds/CBID/

Millions of Missing Birds, Vanishing in Plain Sight
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/opinion/19tue4.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

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Mobile Phones and Vanishing Birds

Reproduction and breeding success of sparrows and white storks are reduced near mobile phone transmitters, and exposure to microwaves in the laboratory caused high mortality rates in chick embryos [12] (Mobile Phones and Vanishing Birds, SiS 34).

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3778251/

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Audubon Warns of Decline in Some Bird Populations
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/25/2084/

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Decline of birds startles experts
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/165081.html

Source: http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=111668;show_parent=1



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