Caption: A scissor-tailed flycatcher flits through Texas' Cross Timbers region May 11, 2007. A pair of research studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison labs of Anna Pidgeon and Volker Radeloff suggest that North America's breeding birds, especially those that migrate to Central and South America, are at risk from the increasing incidence of climate change-fueled severe weather, hurricanes and drought in particular.
Photo by: courtesy Bruce Rosenstiel, www.smallworldphotos.net
Date: May 2007
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