Tagged: Department of Defense

10:43am

Mon August 1, 2011
Environment

With defense money, scientists swap eggs to reverse lark's decline

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Wildlife biologists are employing a little trickery to stop the downward spiral of a rare grassland bird in Western Washington. On Friday, biologists took eggs from healthier larks in Oregon and swapping them into western Washington nests, hoping the lark mothers don't notice.

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