The Vermont Center for Ecostudies tracked local forest birds for a 25-year period and has now One overall finding of this new report was a more than 14 percent decline in the forest bird population in the study areas.
Steve Faccio joined to elaborate on the findings, including a breakdown of which bird species experienced declines and which ones had increasing or stable populations. Faccio is lead author of the report, a conservation biologist and director of the forest bird monitoring program at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies.
Listen to the conversation from Vermont Edition above.
