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As Spring blooms around us, a certain segment of our population thinks about work. That truck they hope to buy, once they get their driving hours in to take their license test. A new phone. Looming tuition costs... Summer jobs. I have spoken before...

The 44-year study charts worrying trends in a relatively untouched area of the Neotropics.

Deep in a Panamanian rain forest, bird populations have been quietly declining for 44 years. A new University of Illinois-led study shows a whopping 70% of understory bird species declined in the forest between 1977 and 2020. And the vast majority of those are down by half or more.

Researchers have studied long-term bird population numbers at Parque Nacional Soberanía, a 55,000-acre national park about 15 miles from Panama City.

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