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Op/Ed by Tom Blackburn, President of the Audubon Society of Northern Virginia

Op/Ed by Tom Blackburn, President of the Audubon Society of Northern Virginia

Nearly 70 species of birds that call Virginia home are at serious risk of extinction from climate change and related threats like sea-level rise, forest fires and false springs, according to the National Audubon Society’s recent climate report, Survival by Degrees. And nationally, that number grows to two-thirds of North American bird species.