Cactus Wren (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Cactus Wren

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Researchers from UMass Amherst, the U.S. Forest Service and Arizona State University studied bird diversity and other variables in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and found that though bird abundance and species numbers decreased over time, in areas where homeowners provided desert landscaping some desert specialist birds such as verdin and cactus wren could still be found and numbers remained relatively stable over the study period.

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Eyal Shochat/Ben Gurion University of the Negev

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