From Forest to Coffee Finca: The Golden-Winged Warbler’s Magnificent Migration
When it comes to protecting natural havens for many of the birds that migrate south from North America each winter, Latin American shade-grown-coffee farms are second only to virgin forest. Since 2007 scientists from ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ North Carolina, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and several of the state’s universities have been monitoring wintering golden-wing populations on small coffee farms in Nicaragua. In the , writer T. Edward Nickens and photographer Jen Judge journey through Nicaragua to find out just how key coffee farms can be for the well-being of this vibrant-colored bird. . And to the golden-winged warbler's beautiful song.