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Posted Sun Feb 7 2010: from Dallas Morning News:
Climate change, pollution are suspects in rusty blackbirds' plummeting numbers http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1265556306
From North Texas to Florida, a high-pitched voice is strangely missing from the chatter of wintering birds. The rusty blackbird, a winter visitor to Dallas-Fort Worth, has suffered one of North America's steepest and least understood declines. Since 1970, scientists say, its numbers have plunged 85 percent to 99 percent. Experts have a lineup of suspects, including habitat changes, disease, climate change and mercury pollution. But they have no proof of what has pushed Euphagus carolinus toward an ecological brink here and across the continent.
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