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Story in Audubon Magazine

erika p. rodriguez

Jan 15, 2018

Hurricane Maria did not just affect people, but it also destroyed most of the trees home to birds and other animals in the island. On December, three months after the storm, the annual Christmas Bird Count of the National Audubon Society took place in Fajardo, a coastal town in the east of Puerto Rico, the results showed the effect left by wrath of the hurricane.

Puerto Ricans Band Together to Survey Birds in Hurricane Maria's Aftermath
Amid power outages, devastated landscapes, and destroyed buildings, birders assessed the storm's avian toll on their Christmas Bird Count.