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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American

for the seven days starting March 19th, 2008. I'm Steve

Mirsky. This week's episode is for the birds. We'll talk to Jeff Wells, senior scientist

for the Boreal Songbird initiative. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science

in the news. Jeff Wells is a leading conservation biologist and bird expert. He was formerly at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

and was the Audubon Society's National Conservation Director,

and he's the author of the just-published Birders Conservation Handbook.

We talked about birds, habitat conservation, and environmental economics

in one of the world's great bird watching sites.

Dr. Wells, great to talk to you.

Thanks, Steve.

It's great to be here.

And here is Central Park.

Why don't we spend just a minute talking about Central Park and its role in the world of birds?

Sure, yeah.

Central Park is actually considered an important bird area by the National Audubon Society.

It's an oasis of green, a green island in this urban sea around us.

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