Hey Tony,

Thank you for posting this article. It is quite interesting. It is also kind of depressing...if it is accurate in its hypothesis. I wonder how research like this will be used in other places or to fund other studies.

James


He then decided to study songbirds, which never eat fish. In particular, he wanted to study the wood thrush, a small bird with a distinctive song that was once common throughout the Northeast. The population of wood thrushes has declined 45 percent in recent decades.

It was once thought that destruction of the bird's forest habitat was responsible for the decline. But Dr. Evers now suspects that mercury contamination might be a factor, along with the wide-ranging negative effects of acid rain on the forests.