Prairies to Pampas

摘要

This year, the British Birdwatching Fair is once again supporting the BirdLife Flyways Programme, with the focus on grassland-dependent migrants in the Americas.For the third year in succession, the British Birdwatching Fair will provide support for BirdLife's Global Flyways Programme. This time the focus will be on the Americas, and particularly on longdistance migrants that depend on grasslands.Many grassland species in the Americas are in trouble. Prairie birds have shown the most sustained population declines of any bird group in North America. The situation is, if anything, worse in South America: Argentina alone has around 25 globally Threatened or Near Threatened grassland-dependent species, including several wintering migrants from North America.