Species that once thrived in North America are meeting their demise.
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"The administration has been completely lukewarm on endangered species so far," Tierra Curry, senior scientists for the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation nonprofit, told ABC News. The species is iconic to the bottomland forests and the extensive pine forests in the Southeast, but as humans began to clear the trees in the 1800s, populations of the bird, once distributed from Florida to Illinois to Oklahoma and Texas, began to decline drastically.
And as recently as this year, a researcher working in Louisiana and Mississippi obtained photographic and acoustic evidence of the bird, Fitzpatrick said.
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