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Great tits cope well with warming
BBC News ^
| Thursday, 8 May 2008
| Richard Black
Posted on 05/08/2008 11:28:23 AM PDT by KeyesPlease
At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.
Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars.
Writing in the journal Science, they point out that the same birds in Holland have not managed to adjust.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: birds
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To: Texican72
To: KeyesPlease
Dickcissels are doing well too.
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:35:36 AM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(Strong copy for a strong America)
To: KeyesPlease
OK, good headline, but I still haven’t seen anything to beat
“Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks”
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:36:17 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: KeyesPlease
Man holding a great tit.
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:36:23 AM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: KeyesPlease
Is that why Al married Tipper?
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:36:42 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Concerned about the price of arugula)
To: KeyesPlease
Definite contender for thread title of the week.
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:36:53 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Carbon is the fifth most abundant element on the planet.)
To: KeyesPlease
“Their movement to an earlier breeding time does not involve an evolutionary change, the scientists believe - it is simply that individual birds are able to change their behaviour, in the same way that they have presumably adapted to warmer or cooler phases before the era of human-induced global warming.”
Maybe we should refer to the success of great tits as being a response to caterpillar-induced global warming, instead.
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:37:02 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: KeyesPlease
My neighbor is a bird enthusiast. She has a really nice pair of tits. She even let me hold them once.
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:37:10 AM PDT
by
kevao
To: KeyesPlease
If you observe them closely enough, you can even detect the ambient temperature.
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:37:25 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(This election is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if McCain wins, were still retarded.)
To: KeyesPlease
mmmhhhhhhhmmmmhhmmmhhmmmmm....
Sorry. I mmmhhhmmhhhhhmmmm .... I got a little something in my caught in my throat.... Sorry.
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:37:36 AM PDT
by
GulfBreeze
(McCain is our nominee. No one else.)
To: live+let_live
“Greatest headline of the day alert”
Breast one today. Ta Ta for now,
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:38:28 AM PDT
by
dblshot
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“....and a titter ran through the crowd.....”
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:39:29 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: KeyesPlease
Glad to hear they are adjusting to the warming. Apparently, they used to to only prosper in colder environments.They peak out in colder weather...
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:40:05 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
To: KeyesPlease; al baby; Auntbee; BJClinton; Dashing Dasher; dfwddr; exile; Feiny; Finger Monkey; ...
"Tard" refers to the ping list members and not to the subject of the thread!
List of Ping Lists
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:40:52 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
To: Always Right
The article clearly indicates that they are able to cope despite the changes in their environment. Those that are not able to cope, such as the Dutch ones, will become less and less visible as the temperature changes.
To: KeyesPlease
Great tits?....Birders are sexually frustrated!
To: Texican72
Here are two beautiful tits.
To: KeyesPlease
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:42:39 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
(Proudly posting band-width consuming images since 2000)
To: KeyesPlease
What about the nipples themselves?
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:42:41 AM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(You're gonna cry 96 Tears on my Pillow!)
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