New research reveals that as logged forests become hotter and drier, birds forced to live outside their specific temperature and humidity preferences suffer from lower body weight and reduced survival rates.

Vast swathes of forests in many countries are being converted into agricultural lands to meet the ever-increasing food demand. India has increased its croplands by 56% from 1880 to 2010 while losing a whopping 26 million hectares of forest land during the same period.