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By Phil Brown
A scientist at the Center for Biodiversity blasted as “absolutely political” a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to keep the Bicknell’s thrush off the federal list of endangered species. The Bicknell’s is a rare songbird that breeds in spruce-fir habitat at high elevations in the Adirondacks, New England, and southeastern Canada. The…
By Phil Brown
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today denied a petition to put the Bicknell’s thrush on the list of endangered species. The songbird breeds at high-elevations in the Adirondacks and New England. Click here to read the background on the petition by the Center for Biological Diversity. The F&WS news release follows: Service Finds Migratory…
By Phil Brown
The Bicknell’s thrush, which breeds in the Adirondacks and northern New England, is at risk from climate change, acid rain, mercury, and habitat destruction, but it is not on the federal list of endangered species. The Center for Biological Diversity is trying to change that. In 2010, the nonprofit organization filed a scientific petition with…