Global Warming for the Birds

by Deb Powers

A lot of folks out there seem to think that global warming is for the birds, but a group of researchers in California have taken a serious look at how global warming is actually affecting their local birds. Morgan Tingley, a doctoral student at University of California at Berkeley, headed up a study that traced the migration patterns of local birds over the past century. Their discovery? Birds will move if the climate becomes unfavorable to them.

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