Most of the forests still standing are in traditional coffee plantations. These provide the last refuge for birds that have lost their habitat to the vast destruction of tropical forests.
Shade Grown Coffee is for the BIRDS! Many of the birds populating North America each summer spend their winters in 'Coffee Country' in Northern Latin America. Here are some of the species that make the trip, and require that winter home to survive. Click a picture to meet them.
Scarlet Tanager Oven Bird Worm-Eating Warbler Baltimore Oriole Northern Parula Wood Thrush
Indigo Bunting Nashville Warbler Red Eye Vireo Rose-breast Grosbeak Yellow Warbler Tennessee Warbler

What happens when conditions become intolorable for a species? The silent answer shouts from the memories of these birds...so quickly gone forever.
Carolina Parakeet Passenger Pigeon Ivory Bill Woodpecker

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