Because of shrinking habitat lost to development and disrupted by intensive new farming practices, the bobolink population has declined 75 percent over the last half century in the northeast. A research team from the University of Vermont and the University of Connecticut had a question: Would the public be willing to pay landowners directly to conserve the open grassland this charismatic species needs to survive?
Popular bobolink spurs new conservation model
PUBLISHED
09-09-2014
Bird on the Rebound