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Some of the dead birds found by biologists from New Mexico State University. The majority are long-distance migrants such as swallows, flycatchers and warblers. Photograph: Allison Salas/New Mexico State University
September 17, 2020
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Thousands of migrating birds have inexplicably died in south-western US in what ornithologists have described as a national tragedy that is likely to be related to the climate crisis. Flycatchers, swallows and warblers are among the species “falling out of the sky” as part of a mass die-off across New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Arizona and farther north into Nebraska, with growing concerns there could be hundreds of thousands dead already...

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