Shade Grown Coffee – Migratory Birds

In January, 2016, I was flown to the Northern Andes in Colombia to document the affects shade-grown coffee (vs. sun grown coffee) had on birds, the greater ecosystems, and communities.

Scientists Amanda Rodewald of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Nick Bayly of Selva spend a morning on a Colombian coffee farm, researching how shade-grown coffee benefits migratory birds like warblers and tanagers. (2016)