Firstly, An 18-year research in Costa Rica found that small farms with natural landscape elements. Like shade trees, hedgerows, and expanses of unbroken forest offer a haven for some tropical bird populations.

Secondly, Ornithologist James Zook has been compiling thorough records on approximately 430 tropical bird species found. In the nation’s small farms, plantations, and unaltered forests for nearly 20 years.

While unspoiled rainforests where birds thrive the greatest, according to Zook. Some species that are typically found in forests can develop populations. In “diversified farms” that somewhat resemble a natural forest setting.

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“How you farm matters,” said Nicholas Hendershot, an ecologist at Stanford University and a co-author of the research study. That was publish on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

According to Hendershot, “in these diversified farms, you see growth over the long term in bird species with specialized needs,”. Such a range of food sources and secure, shady places to make nests.

This pattern, or monocrop pineapple and banana farms. Was “in stark contrast to what we saw in intensive agriculture,” he said.

The results may seem obvious, but Natalia Ocampo-Penuela, a conservation ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz who not involve in the study, said it is extremely rare to have comprehensive long-term data from tropical regions to demonstrate that some forest bird populations can be sustaine by a variety of farming landscapes.

“You can show the species is persisting in that area, not just passing through,” she added, using 18 years of data.

In diverse farms, 75% of the 305 species found to have steady or expanding populations during the course of the study. Several members of the manakin family—little, vividly colored forest birds famed for elaborate courtship dances—as well as the collared aracari, a small, toucan-like bird with a yellow chest and large beak—are examples of this.

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