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Study Says Habitat Loss is a Rising Threat to World’s Migratory Birds

Handout photo of Far Eastern Curlew shore birds

By Will Dunham and Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Habitat destruction poses an increasing peril to migratory birds around the world, and not enough is being done to protect breeding grounds and other important feeding and resting areas along migration paths, according to a new study published in the journal Science. Scientists said they…