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Posted on: February 19, 2021
FORT COLLINS, Colo., Feb 19, 2021–New research recently published in the journal PLOS ONE offers clues about why one of the West’s most unique and iconic songbirds has lost over 80 percent of its population during the last half-century. “Pinyon Jay declines are a real biological mystery, especially since scientists know that the pinyon-juniper woodlands where this bird lives have been expanding for many decades,” said co-author Elisabeth Ammon of the Great Basin Bird Observatory. “There’s never been an obvious explanation for why their numbers are dropping so fast.”