Fish-Eating Birds Take a Toll on ESA-Listed Species
- May 06, 2015
- John Harrison
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Scientists estimate that fish-eating birds consume 35 percent of the juvenile Upper Columbia River spring Chinook salmon, an endangered species, as they migrate downriver to the Pacific Ocean each spring.