Sierra Nevada Santa Marta, Colombia (IMAGE)
Caption
A new study finds that two conservation strategies provide complementary benefits to native birds found in coffee-growing regions. Setting aside forest conserves more forest specialists and breeding birds while growing coffee under a shade tree canopy protects more generalists and nonbreeding birds. Bird communities in forests and coffee plantations in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia (pictured) were surveyed for this study.
Credit
Jonathon Valente/Smithsonian
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Public Domain