The Least Popular Birds in the U.S. Deserve Some Love
They may be small, drab, and shy, but somebody’s got to stand up for them.
by Rachel Gutman
Apr 16, 2019
3 minutes
When I was in sixth grade, the cool girls at my school drew up a document they called the popularity pyramid. Everyone was sorted into a handful of social categories; suffice it to say, I, along with the plurality of the class, was relegated to the lowest tranche and designated a Loser Beyond Belief.
Now a pair of scientists are doing something similar with the birds of the United States. In a published Monday in the , they ranked 621 avian species by their popularity. But unlike the pyramid of my past, this list isn’t
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