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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Between the two breeding bird atlases in the state – one done in the early ’80s and one in the early ’00s – the number of atlas blocks with Vesper Sparrows declined 49%, a decline that is echoed in breeding bird survey routes as well. What has caused the decline? .* What has caused the decline?

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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MARCH 7, 2023

Treaties trump state laws. A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, the Senator from Connecticut who was determined to save our birds and who used a lifetime of hard-learned political maneuvering, collegial networking, and a worldview focused on the goal, not the glory, to make it work.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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