Great tits not impacted by global warming

I kid you not:

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 the Netherlands have not managed to adjust.

Understanding why some species in some places are affected more than others by climatic shifts is vital, they say.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) commented that other species are likely to fare much worse than great tits as temperatures rise.

I've always thought they did pretty well in the cold too.

I'm just saying.

H/T Larwyn.

 

Comments

[Rick]

Mrs. BH just slapped me... thought I was over the top...

[Leslie]

Mrs. BH is wise. :)

[Mommynator]

You and my husband are on the same page.

*eyes rolling*

[Rick]

Hmm... so far, the women don't think much of this post...

[Mike R.]

I thought it was one of your breast posts yet... I mean best. At least I liked tit... it!

Don't get me wrong, Rick.

I can laugh heartily and puns and double entendres with the rest of you.

And I did with this. Writing does not convey the smile and laugh that went with the eye rolling. The eyes rolled in knowing and affection after 30 years of marriage. It startles me that my husband can still get that "look" in his eyes over something so seemingly functional and over the years, affected by babies and gravity.