Posted on 07/05/2008 7:54:52 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Exotic birds from the other side of the world are migrating to Britain across the Arctic as the Polar ice cap melts.
Species from the Pacific Ocean travelling north during the summer are no longer finding their paths blocked by ice.
Instead, they can now fly around it and when winter comes head south to the Atlantic and British Isles. The trend has become so marked, that for the first time three Pacific seabirds have been added this year to the birdwatchers' handbook, Birds of Britain: The Complete Checklist.
This follows confirmed sightings on these shores of species that are normally spotted in China, California and Mexico.
Ornithologists believe this is the "precursor" to a larger influx of visitors from several different species because as the Arctic becomes increasingly free of ice, there could be a major change in bird migration patterns.
Keith Vinicombe, an identification adviser to the guide, said: "With the ice melting, these birds are able to drift around the North Pole on the currents and are conveyed towards us.
"If more ice goes, we are going to see populations of birds that will be able to travel between the two oceans for the first time in millions of years."
Among the Pacific visitors added to the British birds checklist, which have all been sighted in Britain since 2006, are the long-billed murrelet, glaucous-winged gull and Pacific diver.
Among other Pacific species that experts predict could follow are: slaty, backed gull, black-tailed gull, Aleutian Tern, parakeet auklet, least auklet, horned puffin, tufted puffin and spectacled eider.
But ornithologists think the melting ice may mean British birds, including the Atlantic puffin, the razorbill and the little auk, could make the journey in the opposite direction to the Pacific.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
i knew something was wrong the other day—
i saw a penguin here in socal!
si.
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Oh, I guess this explains all the birds I’ve seen lately with yellow bills.
ROFLAMO!!!
What’s this? You mean wildlife adapt. Amazing.
“The Atlantic Puffin”????
Damn flying ice, almost hit some on a flight to Cancun.
It looks like these birds don fly, they “drift” around ice. How funny is this article!
Here’s the latest satellite images from today on ice coverage: http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=07&fd=05&fy=2007&sm=07&sd=05&sy=2008
Yup, the Artic melting is another MSM Big Lie. Utter BS. But leftist rags don’t care about facts. Can you say “1984” or “Goebbels”?
British Birds in America? Yes, I can definitely go for that!
The Telegraph is generally one of the more conservative British papers.
That’s nifty. What’s the scale on the upper left of each image (too small to make out)?
"we are going to see populations of birds that will be able to travel between the two oceans for the first time in millions of years."
Beware the intercontinental pterodactyl.
yitbos
Exotic girls from the other side of the world are migrating to Britain?....
Fancy that?....
It is per cent ice coverage, the darkest purple is 100%, and less ice as it goes down in the scale.
"With the ice melting, these birds are able to drift around the North Pole on the currents and are conveyed towards us."
The Telegraph is testing its readers? The paper is hazing a newbie wannabe writer who is just regurgitating what he was taught in journalism school?
What is the Brit phrase for, "We're just funnin' with you"?
yitbos
Species from the Pacific Ocean traveling north during the summer are no longer finding their paths blocked by ice.they are Not WALKING!!! if they flew over the WATER... then they could fly over ice TOO!!! this is BS.
I knew something just wasn't right with this article. Exposed by FReepers!!
yitbos
“Species from the Pacific Ocean travelling north during the summer are no longer finding their paths blocked by ice. “
?!
Selvagemnooeste says:
Although a fantastic record (and an impressive turnout from the twitching crowd) its not completely unheard of, there is a pattern and an explanation: Although this species is the 1st for Britain (2nd for Europe) other N American auik species have occured in Europe. Also in Devon in May 1990 an Ancient Murrelet appeared and returned for 2 succesive years. In December 1880 a Parakeet Auklet was collected on an inland lake in Sweden. In August 1912 a Crested Auklet was collected at sea just North of Iceland. In June 1994 a Tufted Puffin was recorded in Sweden. Its possible that these birds had crossed N America and migrated West to Europe in the wrong ocean but I believe much more likely that the phenomenon of reversed migration (a genetic fault) to be much more plausible: If one draws a line from the N Pacific northwards instead of South, allowing for the Earth’s curvature, one sees that the reflection lies in the path of Greenland-Iceland-Scandinavia-Britain and continues to central Europe etc. Other birds like N Pacific waders and gulls and the Sandhill Crane all show a similar pattern of vagrancy in Europe. So maybe its not so surprising that this bird has turned up - but maybe even more interesting to see that this is a genuine phenomenon with man playing no hand.
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jas3
this is such propaganda crap.
there was a NOAA report just last Friday that stated that the polar ice cap this summer is catually melting slower than usual
where do these fools get these stories?
good lord....what is the average IQ of a Brit J-school grad today?
80s maybe....somewhere tween a pygmy bushman and a football hooligan?
I live 15 miles south of Las Vegas. A regular visitor to my yard are two pairs of Ringed Turtle Doves (Streptopelia risoria), a species native to southern Asia.
The Ringed Turtle Dove was a cage bird in Europe. Now they are in southern Nevada.
The birds originated in a cage. Sometime or someplace, they escaped or were set free.
yitbos
Well, uh, duh..will that bring the price of coconuts up?
Oh my God, the economy is ruined!
I got changed into a Newt FROG....but, I got (somewhat) better.
i saw a penguin here in socal!
We saw them in Dallas too...
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