# 09-50: The Five Great Forests with Anna Lello-Smith

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Podcast: [The American Birding Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-american-birding-podcast-221392)
Published: 2025-12-11T10:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Central America is home to five great tropical forests, whose presence and protection are critical to the conservation of just about every one of our neotropical migrant birds. It is the subject of a recent study from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Wildlife Conservation Society published last month in the journal Biological Conservation. Anna Lello-Smith, bird conservation scientist from the WCS is the lead author and she joins is to talk about what this means for bird conservation. Also, it's the first weekend of the Christmas Bird Count. Hope you're ready! Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a rating or a review if you are so inclined! We appreciate it!

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