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Climate change threatens hundreds of North American bird species with extinction, study says
WPBF-TV Orlando ^ | October 10, 2019 | by Bill Weir

Posted on 10/10/2019 10:12:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Nearly two-thirds of North American birds studied will go extinct if global warming hits 3 degrees Celsius (5.4˚F), a new report from the National Audubon Society finds.

Orioles, eagles, grouse and gulls are among 389 types of bird - 64% of 604 species assessed on this continent - that are highly or moderately vulnerable to climate change, the study says.

The stark warning follows research published last month that showed the U.S. and Canada had lost 2.9 billion birds in about the last 50 years.

The existential threat to birds also impacts humanity. As canaries warned coal miners of invisible death in the industrial era, now birds of every shape and size can be life-or-death alerts in the age of global warming.

But if humanity can somehow escape the proverbial coal mine in time and hold warming to the Paris Accord target of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7˚F), 76% of the most vulnerable species should survive, the Audubon study states.

Using latest climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, they examined the habitats of 604 North American species. Given projected increases in drought, heat, fire, rain and other factors, they found that 389 of the species studied would likely not survive in a world 3 degrees hotter.

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To: FamiliarFace

Not sure about the photo in that article.

My family loves birds. My mother could identify nests, eggs and species from a distance - she finished school at 15, but her curiosity was natural.

As a child, I had canaries and a love-bird;) Today, my son has dozens of hummingbird feeders in his backyard - and a family of black bears who love the nectar;)!!!!!

We are pretty much nuts!!!!!


41 posted on 10/10/2019 11:37:04 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: sodpoodle

I’ve become a bird watcher in the last few years because the place where we moved has a lot of natural habitat for wildlife. I’ve been learning and learning since moving here 6 years ago. I have a half dozen different types of bird feeders, and four more that are made for hummingbirds. So, yes, I’m pretty crazy myself. No bears where I live, though, thankfully!


42 posted on 10/10/2019 11:49:18 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well,,, sort of.

The false claim of man made global warming has guilted nations into building literally thousands of 400 foot tall windmills that kill birds by the millions at a time. So yea, globull warming is killing birds indirectly.


43 posted on 10/10/2019 11:51:29 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey as long as it aint Chicken or Turkey:-)


44 posted on 10/10/2019 12:05:41 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: cgbg

Ha! I just saw that yesterday. Funny stuff!


45 posted on 10/10/2019 12:07:28 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Nateman

“Studies say” is Newspeak for:

“Leftist propaganda says”


46 posted on 10/10/2019 12:10:01 PM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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To: Professional

Ah, the age of hysterics is at hand.


47 posted on 10/10/2019 12:12:58 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I didn’t know that birds in the lower 48 couldn’t fly north?? /sarc

Seriously, there is zero reason to believe they would not.

They will be just like polar bears. Before too long they will adapt.

Remember the reports that the earth was losing all its coral reefs in the oceans. Well, some latest studies have shown that some of the coral species have changed how they are using their genes & chemistry, to withstand warmer oceans.

OMG!!!! Adaptation!!! Isn’t that what evolution is all about?


48 posted on 10/10/2019 12:21:32 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Given projected increases in drought, heat, fire, rain and other factors, they found that 389 of the species studied would likely not survive in a world 3 degrees hotter."

And there it is again. Did I not read that some 99% of all species that existed ever Earth went extinct due to climate change, meteor/comet impacts or volanoes blocking out the Sun? Guess what? The world went on as humans developed and prospered. I don't give a rats ass about spotted owls or some lizard or insect in the desert. There are plenty more species for the food chain.

49 posted on 10/10/2019 12:23:33 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Using latest climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,”

That was their first problem - the flawed models used as the basis for all their other predictions.

Their second error presumes that none of the birds studied have a natural instinct to live, to survive so over some few generations the birds will stick to their old ways and no adaptation by them will occur. THAT is not “science”.


50 posted on 10/10/2019 12:25:28 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The sky is falling.. the sky is falling


51 posted on 10/10/2019 12:51:20 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global warming is scientific masturbation in a closed political system.

What about the Medieval Warming Period?
The Roman Warming Period?
When all the mile high glaciers melted about 10 or 12 thousand years ago?

Att: ALL BIRDS

ADAPT OR DIE!


52 posted on 10/10/2019 2:52:56 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change threatens hundreds of North American bird species with extinction, as WINDMILLS Kill Millions Daily


53 posted on 10/10/2019 3:06:46 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: C210N

and the 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion deaths from cats,...


54 posted on 10/10/2019 3:38:13 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: stars & stripes forever

In a round about way, the bird deaths are a result of the invented “global warming”. The wind and solar bird killers are there to prevent the “global warming”. But when you factor in that birds likely fart a lot while flying around, it’s probably better this way.


55 posted on 10/10/2019 4:30:16 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Hawks and eagles and falcons are definitely more abundant. When I was a kid there were no falcons around except for a kestrel once in a while. Seeing a hawk was was rare and exciting... on a hundred mile trip we’d see one or two, almost always a pair redtails. Now the darn things are everywhere, I see them every single day, occupying every third light post, flitting through the pine woods, soaring over meadows, and in the garden they even show up, especially the smaller kind that prefer to eat song birds. Has it ever occurred to the bird counters that the resurgence of predatory birds would have a negative impact on songbirds?


56 posted on 10/10/2019 5:36:13 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa
Hawks and eagles and falcons are definitely more abundant.

On one of my pheasant hunting trips to N.W. Kansas, we flew into Kansas City Missouri then drove across the state of Kansas. It seemed like every mile we would pass a hawk or an eagle sitting on a fence post off the side of the road......

57 posted on 10/11/2019 3:16:44 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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