"These birds and others became more plentiful when deer densities declined because deer can voraciously chew up so-called โunderstory plants,โ which are small trees, shrubs and vines that grow in the shade beneath tree canopy and on which native birds both feed and nest."
Deer also eat songbird eggs and nestlings.
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