"In warmer world, longer flights; Migrating birds may be at risk as mating areas shift" by Alister Doyle, Reuters | April 15, 2009
OSLO - Some European birds will have to fly farther as global warming shifts their breeding grounds northward in the biggest challenge to the tiny migrants since the Ice Age, scientists said yesterday.
Birds Gotta Fly....
Rockin' Robin
Some types of warbler would have to add 250 miles to twice-yearly trips of up to 4,000 miles to and from Africa, according to the report, described as the first to examine the potential impact of climate change on avian migration.
"For some birds, the extra distance might make the difference between being able to make it or not," Stephen Willis of Durham University said of the study he led with a team of scientists based in Britain. The report, adding to projected threats to animals and plants from global warming....
The study said breeding grounds were moving northward because of climate change, while wintering regions nearer the equator were less affected. The Arctic region is warming almost twice as fast as the rest of the globe....
--more--"Honestly, I'm sick of it. Sick of the damn agenda-pushing lies and sick of burning the midnight oil refuting them.
