Some Common Birds Not So Common Anymore
June 14, 2007 By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer(AP) -- The populations of nearly two dozen common American birds - the fence-sitting meadowlark, the frenetic Rufous hummingbird and the whippoorwill with its haunting call - are half what they were 40 years ago, a new analysis found.
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