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Birds of Two Worlds:

Saving Songbirds With Your Coffee Cup

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Birds of Two Worlds

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Breeding Bird Survey Results

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Olive-sided Flycatcher

Canada Warbler

R. Royse

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Forest Birds in Decline

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Marie Read

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Lang Elliot

Cerulean Warbler

R. Royse

Other Forest Birds in Decline

Lang Elliot

Kentucky Warbler

Threats on the Wintering Grounds

Large breeding range

Small wintering range

Tropical Deforestation

1967

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Southern Mexico

In southern Mexico,

young Wood Thrush

cannot compete for

forest-interior territories

Living in forest edges or

scrub decreases winter

survival

Losing Out

Losing Out

In Mexico most young Hooded Warblers live as desperate “wanderers” because there is not enough forest

In Jamaica young American

Redstarts, and females, are

forced into dry scrub, where

there is little food

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“Bird Friendly” certified shade coffee

farms resemble a natural rainforest

Marie Read

Baltimore Oriole

Marie Read

R. Royse

Magnolia Warbler

Scarlet Tanager

Coffee - before harvest

Traditional Shade Coffee:

Partial Shade Coffee:

Sun Coffee:

Sun Coffee

2 million acres of shade coffee have been converted to sun coffee in recent decades

40% of coffee production in Latin America is now sun grown

Unsustainable for the farmer and the environment

Sun Coffee

Migratory Songbirds & Shade Coffee

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Where to Buy “Bird Friendly” Coffee

Check the SMBC web site for

a coffee shop or distributor

near you!

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