Shade coffee plantation in Finca El Jaguar in Nicaragua. Image Cagan Sekercioglu.

In Winged Sentinels we highlight the importance of improving bird habitat outside protected areas to help bird populations adapt to climate change.

Bird-friendly coffee plantations are one fascinating way to achieve this. Inhuman-altered landscapes, they can provide hospitable habitat to help birds shift their ranges. This allows their populations to track suitable climate conditions, prey, plants and other reso...