Newsletter Photo by Joshua J. Cotten on Unsplash Maine’s sparrows are being wiped out by mercury and climate change The saltmarsh sparrow, a native Maine species, is slated to be considered for Endangered Species protection in 2024 and predicted to be extinct by 2060.
Impacts Climate change threatens endangered sparrows A new study in The Condor: Ornithological Applications finds that some sparrow species will go extinct within the century due to climate change.
