Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2013
It turns out that the reclaimed mines work well as habitat for the sparrow because they collect a layer of leaf litter, a key nesting requirement. I was particularly sad to see the decline of Henslow’s Sparrow, a bird I saw for the first time in the reclaimed surface mine grasslands of western Pennsylvania.
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