Conservation Practices Benefit Golden-winged Warblers in Appalachia
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The golden-winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) is a neotropical migrant songbird that winters in portions of Central and South America and breeds in the northern Great Lakes regions of the United States and Canada, and at higher elevations of the central and southern Appalachian Mountains (Confer et al. 2011). The species is experiencing steep population declines throughout its Appalachian Mountains breeding range (8.5% per year, Sauer et al. 2014) and has thus become rare and patchily distributed throughout this region. Several factors are thought to be driving population declines of this songbird, including habitat loss in both the breeding and wintering range, hybridization with the blue-winged warbler, and nest parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds (Buehler et al. 2007 ). Of these factors, loss of quality breeding habitat—young forests and shrublands embedded in extensively forested landscapes—is thought to be the most significant (Roth et al. 2012).
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