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Climate Change and National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society: A new Birds and Climate Report from the New York-based conservation group National Audubon Society shows that climate change is pushing North American birds north so far north that hundreds of species will lose more than half their current range by 2080. Read the full Birds and Climate Report , according to CBC. "This new information shows that we have to look to the larger and still-intact landscapes of Canada North to ensure these birds have somewhere safe to go." Canada degradation of pristine, intact forests leads world The laugh of the loon across southern Canadian lakes may soon be replaced by the calls of unfamiliar birds such as white-faced ibises and Mississippi kites, because of climate change. "Climate change is displacing hundreds of bird species, many of which are headed deeper into the heart of Canada," said the group chief scientist Gary Lagham in a statement tied to the release of the report this week. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.