Ricky Schiano 9/9/14 Essays - National Audubon Society, Bird

Ricky Schiano 9/9/14 Mrs. C. Kenny Honors Biology Climate Change Disrupts North America Bird Species FELICITY BARRINGER On Monday September 8 th , four students from the National Audubon Society discovered that climate change in North America could eventually drive certain species of birds to extinction. The students documented that around the year 2050 , 21.4% of bird sp ecies will lose more than half of their current population, and by 2080 an additional 32% of birds will be in the same situation. A changing climate may not seem like much of a problem, why can't the birds just migrate? Well many birds will, but then there will be some types that will not be able to due to the environment that was necessary to their survival. Birds like the yellow-billed magpie in rely on the scrub oak habitat in California. While the birds can fly away, the trees cannot, which holds them back from migration. This article is associated with out course because it has to do with ecosystems and organisms. Since the birds' ecosystem is changing, they will either have to move and repopulate, or stay and eventually die out.