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When a group of researchers at Texas A&M’s Natural Resources Institute published the firstpeer-reviewed studythat surveyed the presence of a brightly colored Texas songbird across a huge swath of Texas, the results were astounding: The population of the endangered golden-cheeked warbler in the state was estimated to be 10 times larger than previously thought.

The 2012 study did not advocate changing the species’ endangered status, nor did it imply that conservation measures to protect its habitat were no longer necessary, researcherssaid at the time.https://08e135b45366f99693eb106abf395c4a.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

“Rather,” said Heather Mathewson, the lead researcher, “this study is one of many…