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Good bad news about Illinois birds at Audubon dinner
University of Indiana ornithology professor Donald Whitehead told Thorn Creek Audubon Society that Illinois may lose migratory songbirds due to cowbird parasitism and habitat loss. He traced declines in neotropical migrants to deforestation, reduced stopover sites, and forest fragmentation, urging changes in management to halt further losses.
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Peggy Shaw
Park Forest
Illinois
Donald Whitehead
Thorn Creek Audubon Society
Whitehead
Midwest
University of Indiana
Tropics
Bloomington
United States
Terborgh
National Forest Service
Department of Natural Resources
Ilinois