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Biologists worried by starving migratory birds, seen as tied to climate change

by Darryl Fears

At the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, the tiny bodies of Arctic tern chicks have piled up. Over the past few years, biologists have counted thousands that starved to death because the herring their parents feed them have vanished.

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