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Lucylastic -> RE: Who is ready for some global warming? (1/5/2017 5:12:12 PM)
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Heres a couple of places....
From Denmark
http://cphpost.dk/news/danish-researchers-climate-change-impacting-migrating-birds.html
New research from the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen has concluded that climate change will make it increasingly difficult for migratory birds to survive.
The Danish researchers, who led the considerable international research project, used satellite tracking to monitor the migration of 38 birds over several years.
“They are bound to their migration programs, so they fly down to the areas that are green, or where they expect it to be green,” Kasper Thorup, one of the researchers, told DR Nyheder.
“Just as we have a circadian rhythm, the birds have an internal program – an annual rhythm that they follow.”
According to the researchers, there are indications that some species will struggle to survive in the future when climate change is expected to lead to extreme periods of drought and vegetation change.
READ MORE: Sparrows quickly disappearing from Danish countryside
Dependent on green areas
Three migratory birds indigenous to Denmark – the red-backed shrike, the nightingale and the cuckoo – all spend their winters in various parts of Africa before flying back to Denmark in the late spring.
The cuckoo flies straight to the jungles of west Africa, but the shrike and nightingale travel from green spot to green spot – areas that are lush for only weeks or months at a time – jumping to and fro from five to seven different spots as part of their migration. And that’s where the issue stems from.
“There have been droughts in some areas of Africa, and we could see there that the birds were still waiting around,” said Thorup.
“They don’t just suddenly come up with a new plan just because it isn’t green.”
The migratory bird figures are already dwindling, and unless they are able to adapt their migrations in the future, they may not survive the impact of climate change.
The research project has been published in the scientific journal Science Advances.
This from YaleClimateConnections
http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/01/climate-change-affecting-bird-migrations/
Each year, more than five million songbirds fly through Chicago as they migrate. But as the climate warms, the timing of those trips are changing.
For more than 30 years, the Field Museum in Chicago has been monitoring migration patterns by studying the bodies of birds that collide with buildings.
Based on collision numbers and dates, they’ve found that some flocks pass through Chicago about a week earlier in the spring than they did several decades ago.
Douglas Stotz is a conservation ecologist at the museum. He says that climate change is the clear cause. Warmer temperatures mean that some birds may not fly as far south to find a wintering ground, so it does not take them as long to get back to Chicago in the spring.
And warmer temperatures are causing some birds – like many white-throated sparrows – to stay in Chicago rather than flying south for the winter. Stotz says it’s important to pay attention to these changes in a bird’s migration patterns.
Stotz: “They are an indicator of what’s happening to the ecosystem as a whole, to the climate as a whole.”
Researcher finds warming temps affecting bird migration patterns. CLICK TO TWEET
For example, if birds do not arrive in time to eat certain insects that damage trees, the trees will suffer.
Stotz: “It’s sort of scary to think how much bigger these effects are going to become in the future if we don’t come to terms with climate change.”
theus and canada
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-rsquo-s-killing-the-world-rsquo-s-shorebirds/
Lets not forget the shit thats happening in the oceans, one way or another we are fucking the planet....
mother nature is gonna fight back hard....
I wish it was funny that the deniers are the ones for getting rid of the epa, and other regulatory nastiness
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