Link revealed between climate change and decline of a threatened UK migrant bird
Researchers from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) have used data gathered by volunteers to uncover how the…
Willow Warbler - Tom Cadwallender
Some Don’t Like it Hot!
New research from BTO implicates rising temperatures in the steep decline of the Willow Warbler, one of the UK’s most tuneful harbingers of spring. The study, published in the journal IBIS, shows that Willow Warblers are doing better in Scotland, where temperatures are cooler. Evidence is building to suggest the population in southern Britain is a casualty of recent anthropogenic climate change.
Fifty years of citizen science shows a positive response to climate change by a third of English breeding birds.
New research, just published in the journal Bird Study, has shown that one third of 68 breeding species in England have been affected by climate change, leading to notable increases in some and declines in a few.