Title: Migrating Birds Can't Find Their Way Home

Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/734/migrate_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Migrating Birds Can't Find Their Way Home' data-article-id='1124'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='7563'>A huge percentage of bird species are in danger because their habitats, or homelands, are disappearing.</span> <span data-start-time='7563' data-end-time='16896'>Traditional migration paths take birds through countries that are not protecting locations to stop, rest and feed.</span> <span data-start-time='16896' data-end-time='24729'>The scientists studied the migration, or flight, paths, of almost 1,500 species. </span> <span data-start-time='24729' data-end-time='30188'>They decided that 91 percent of them passed through dangerous areas.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='30188' data-end-time='34833'>The major danger for migratory birds is development. </span> <span data-start-time='34833' data-end-time='43042'>Building and paving has covered over nature where birds stop and feed as they move from one part of the world to another.</span> <span data-start-time='43042' data-end-time='50396'>For example, a bird called the bar-tailed godwit migrates from its breeding grounds in the Arctic. </span> <span data-start-time='50396' data-end-time='55188'>It flies all the way to the southern hemisphere in Australia and New Zealand. </span> <span data-start-time='55188' data-end-time='63479'>Along the way, the small birds stop at Yellow Sea mudflats in China, North Korea and South Korea.</span> <span data-start-time='63479' data-end-time='76146'>One of the scientists who worked on the study says &ldquo;many of these critical sites have been lost to land reclamation owing to urban, industrial and agricultural expansion.&rdquo;</span> <span data-start-time='76146' data-end-time='86792'>The problem, according to investigators, is that many of these small birds die along their migration because they don&rsquo;t have a safe place to eat and rest. </span> <span data-start-time='86792' data-end-time='90792'>There is no place to restore their energy for the next leg of their journey.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/734/their_habitats.m4a'><span>their habitats</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/734/near_the_ocean.m4a'><span>near the ocean</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=4950 data-hint-location='30188' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/734/the_major_danger_for_migratory_birds_is__blank_.m4a'>The major danger for migratory birds is <span class='blank'>development</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='development'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/734/pollution.m4a'><span>pollution</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/734/global_warming.m4a'><span>global warming</span></div><div 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A huge percentage of bird species are in danger because their habitats, or homelands, are disappearing. Traditional migration paths take birds through countries that are not protecting locations to stop, rest and feed. The scientists studied the migration, or flight, paths, of almost 1,500 species. They decided that 91 percent of them passed through dangerous areas.

The major danger for migratory birds is development. Building and paving has covered over nature where birds stop and feed as they move from one part of the world to another. For example, a bird called the bar-tailed godwit migrates from its breeding grounds in the Arctic. It flies all the way to the southern hemisphere in Australia and New Zealand. Along the way, the small birds stop at Yellow Sea mudflats in China, North Korea and South Korea. One of the scientists who worked on the study says “many of these critical sites have been lost to land reclamation owing to urban, industrial and agricultural expansion.” The problem, according to investigators, is that many of these small birds die along their migration because they don’t have a safe place to eat and rest. There is no place to restore their energy for the next leg of their journey.

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