Bad Timing: As Climate Change Brings Earlier Springs, Breeding Birds Aren’t Adjusting Fast Enough. A new study using data from the MAPS program estimates that songbirds could produce 12% fewer young by the end of the century.

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“In a paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Casey Youngflesh of Michigan State University, along with colleagues from IBP, UCLA, Pennsylvania State University, University of Florida and the University of North Carolina, used data from the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship bird banding program (MAPS) coordinated by IBP to examine phenological mismatch between breeding songbirds and spring “green-up” (when deciduous plants leaf out.)”

*the link to the open access research paper is near the top, on the right.

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