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Decades of songbird mapping in New Hampshire yields insights about their changing home

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By Ari Daniel

Published August 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM EDT

In 1969, a team of researchers took a patch of forest in central New Hampshire and mapped the territories of the songbirds inhabiting it. For more than half a century, that work has continued, revealing insights about the forest and its birds with evermore modern techniques.

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