Climate Change Will Endanger Hundreds of America’s Bird Species

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http://billmoyers.com/2014/09/11/climate-change-will-endanger-hundreds-of-americas-bird-species/



By 2080, the Baltimore oriole may no longer spend warmer months in Baltimore and the tundra swan may lose much of its summer habitat in North America. Minnesota’s state bird, the common loon, may no longer have a nesting ground in the continental US, and the bald eagle, America’s national emblem, will find its home creeping gradually northward toward Canada.

This saddening news comes from a new report by the National Audubon Society. The study, seven years in the making, is the first of its kind. It examines the fate of 588 North American birds as climate change begins to take its toll on the regions in which they live. Of those 588 species, more than half will face difficult adjustments as they find their habitats shifting or shrinking.

Within that count are more than 100 birds that Audubon says are “climate endangered.” For these birds, more than half of the areas they live in will have become unsuitable for them as early as 2050. The cerulean warbler — a bird whose fragile and shrinking population was the protagonist’s obsession in Jonathan Franzen’s bestselling novel Freedom — will have 98 percent of its breeding range shifted elsewhere by 2080.



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1. No!

Not good!