'We are 100 percent dry,' Jason Wagner, wildlife area manager of the Cheyenne Bottoms, said of the drought that has hit the region.
in Kansas is the largest interior wetlands in the U.S. and is located around 110 miles northwest of Wichita.
These conditions are thought to have been brought on by a combination of unusually low rainfall and high temperatures: a "The birds then head south, to the Gulf Coast, Central and South America, and some as far as Chile and Argentina. On the return trip in spring, they also use the Kansas wetlands.""Our bird numbers are nothing [this year]," Wagner said."Most of them aren't even stopping because there's nothing for them to stop for."
Without their rest sites, the birds may not make it to the next available source of food and water, and if they do, these sites are likely to be overcrowded. "In large scale, regional prolonged droughts, like those being experienced in the Plains and throughout the American West, it is likely that there will be population declines because of inadequate availability of high-quality stopover habitat, and crowding at those that remain," he added.
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