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Great News on the Warm Globe Front

Great tits not impacted by global warming.

Ha, made you look.  BBC via Brutally Honest:

At least one of Britain’s birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.

Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars.

Writing in the journal Science, they point out that the same birds in the Netherlands have not managed to adjust.

Understanding why some species in some places are affected more than others by climatic shifts is vital, they say.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) commented that other species are likely to fare much worse than great tits as temperatures rise.

So if I have this right, if anything we’ll be seeing more great tits. Big danger is they might be warmer, wetter.

OK, you’ve been good sports. Here’s a place in Britain where great tits are thriving. And here’s a nice pair.

Topics: warmglob

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 3:30 pm on Saturday, May 10, 2008

3 Responses to “Great News on the Warm Globe Front”

1. Fatty Bolger Says:
   May 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

   So will global cooling lead to an increase in blue tits?

   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Tit)

2. TheBigHenry Says:
   May 11th, 2008 at 1:12 am

   Global cooling will lead to an increase of good tits.

3. Jules Crittenden Says:
   May 12th, 2008 at 7:30 am

   Sorry, accidentally killed someone’s comment while clearing out spam. Please repost.

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