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Summers Mediterranean weather brought rare birds & insects to Britain
2014-08-10 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Exotic and colourful bee-eaters snatching dragonflies out of mid-air. Black-winged stilts birds with legs as long as supermodels bringing a touch of class to a coastal marsh. And continental butterflies swarming across the Channel to surprise Britains lepidopterists. This summer has certainly brought a touch of the Med to our shores. Britains usual wildlife has been joined by a host of new and unusual species, with many creatures staying on to breed. The news of a pair of bee-eaters nesting...
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Dead anchovies delight sea birds, disgust Oregon beach town
2014-07-30 23:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Thousands of dead anchovies have washed up this week in the town of Seaside, Oregon, providing a welcome feast for marine birds but a foul stench for tourists and residents of the popular beachside village northwest of Portland. "It's certainly pungent," said Erin Paxton of the town's Oregon Coast Aquarium, describing the mass of tiny dead fish littering the banks of the Necanicum River, which parallels the coastline behind the beach before flowing into the Pacific The anchovy die-off likely...
Wading birds declining in the UK
2014-07-30 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The magical winter wildlife spectacle of hundreds of thousands of wading birds converging on British estuaries could be under threat as research shows big declines in some of the most familiar species. Results from the Wetland Bird Survey reveals ringed plovers, oystercatchers, redshank and dunlin are among the eight most abundant species overwintering on UK estuaries to suffer significant and consistent population drops over 10 years. Conservationists believe a combination of factors are responsible,...
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Arctic warming upsetting birds' breeding calendar, study warns
2014-07-08 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Arctic migrants are nesting up to seven days earlier as the world warms. The sandpiper makes a beeline for the Alaskan shores, to join the phalarope on the beach and the songbirds in the woods - and all because the winter snows are melting earlier. Conservation scientists Joe Liebezeit and Steve Zack both then of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and colleagues report in the journal Polar Biology that they looked into nearly 2,500 nests of four shorebird species in Alaska two sandpipers,...
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Climate change prompting Arctic birds to breed early
2014-06-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indo-Asian News Service: Earlier spring seasons and snow-melt brought about by climate change are causing migratory birds that breed in the Arctic Alaska to breed sooner, says a study. "It seems clear that the timing of the snow melt in the Arctic Alaska is the most important mechanism driving the earlier and earlier breeding dates we observed in the Arctic," said Joe Liebezeit from Audubon Society of Portland in the US. Researchers looked in nearly 2,500 nests of four shorebird species semi-palmated sandpiper, red phalarope,...
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