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NPR  reports

Over the past century, as much of their habitat was drained and water stopped flowing through parts of the Everglades, the snail kite population plummeted. It was one of the first birds put on the endangered species list in the 1960’s. Droughts contributed to the snail kite’s decline and by 2007, there were fewer than 800 remaining. “Right shortly after that though, this invasive snail came in, and just started flourishing, getting into every wetland, having these big population booms,” Beck says. “Since then, the snail kite population has been slowly rebounding.”

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