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North America’s grassland birds are in trouble 50 years after adoption of the Endangered Species Act as habitat loss, land degradation and climate change threaten what remains of a once-vast
When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the western South Dakota prairie. Nothing's better, he says, than getting up at sunrise as the birds light up the area with song. "It's part of the flora and fauna of our Great…
When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the western South Dakota prairie. “It’s part of the flora and fauna of our Great Plains and it’s beautiful to hear,” says Cammack, 42, a sixth-generation rancher who raises cattle on 10,000 acres (4,047 hectares) of mostly unaltered native grasslands. “There are quite a few I don’t see any more and I don’t know for sure why,” says Cammack's 92-year-old grandfather, Floyd.
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Birds don’t wait until autumn to begin heading back to their winter quarters.