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The chickadee in the snowbank: A 'canary in the coal mine' for climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountains

  • Written by Benjamin Sonnenberg, Ph.D. Candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada, Reno
The chickadee in the snowbank: A 'canary in the coal mine' for climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountainsMountain chickadees struggle with snow extremes.Benjamin Sonnenberg

Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb above 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California, tugging a sled loaded with batteries, bolts, wire and 40 pounds of sunflower seeds critical to our mountain chickadee research.

As we reach the remote research...

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