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Ospreys' recovery from pollution and shooting is a global conservation success story

  • Written by Alan Poole, Research associate, Cornell University
Osprey on a nesting platform in Massachusetts.Craig Gibson, CC BY-ND

A hundred years ago, a person wandering the back roads of coastal New England might have come across an odd sight: at the edge of a farmyard, cheek by jowl with pigs and chickens and cows, a tall pole topped with a massive stick nest. And standing guard in the nest, a large...

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