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Weatherwatch: How ecologists are helping birds adapt to climate crisis
Moving migratory pied flycatchers further north to breed where food remained resulted in twice as many chicksHow do you help a migratory bird adapt to the climate crisis? One radical solution, as a team of Dutch ecologists discovered, is to move them further north.Pied flycatchers are handsome black-and-white songbirds, which breed in deciduous woodlands across much of temperate Europe. Each autumn, they head south across the Sahara desert to overwinter in west Africa. Continue reading...
Moving migratory pied flycatchers further north to breed where food remained resulted in twice as many chicks
How do you help a migratory bird adapt to the climate crisis? One radical solution, as a team of Dutch ecologists discovered, is to move them further north.
Pied flycatchers are handsome black-and-white songbirds, which breed in deciduous woodlands across much of temperate Europe. Each autumn, they head south across the Sahara desert to overwinter in west Africa. Continue reading...
