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How the armed forces inadvertently helped to decimate, then save, the osprey (feathery kind)
Along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, nearly 20,000 Ospreys now arrive to nest each spring — the largest concentration of breeding pairs in the world. Two-thirds of them nest on buoys and channel markers maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard, who have become de facto Osprey guardians.
By Alan Poole, Cornell University