Texas Fauna Project

Golden-cheeked Warbler

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Dean Keddy-Hector, a wildlife biologist who worked with Texas Parks and Wildlife, and taught at Huston-Tillotson University, here explains that we need to focus on habitat loss to gauge a species' future viability, not just sheer numeric abundance. Otherwise, we run the risk of ignoring the lessons of the collapse of the passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, or American bison.