Sparrow Conservation Efforts Reaches Children

This is a saltmarsh sparrow, an Endangered species of bird that builds its nest in its eponymous habitat. A collaboration of citizen scientists working in Jacob’s Point salt marsh in Rhode Island is attempting to save the animal—which they believe will go extinct by mid-century—from drowning in the marsh. In a state of nature untouched […] The post Citizen Scientists’ Makeshift ‘Coffee Filter Arks’ Help Prevent These Sparrows Chicks from Drowning appeared first on Good News Network.