Climate Variables and Christmas Bird Counts

Christmas bird counts: The Audubon report was made by taking 114 years of yearly Christmas bird counts and 40-odd years of breeding bird surveys, and laying that over 17 climate variables. That has allowed researchers to examine which kind of climate each species can tolerate, and how the climate in that birds specific region is changing. , according to The Telegram. Climate change has always been like the elephant in the room. And thats one of the things that this study is helpful for because it has finally put some numbers on that elephant in the room and allows you sort of to look into the future at what the future might hold for a certain species, Cheskey says. The Climate Report has declared that nearly half of all birds found in North America are severely threatened by global warming. Ted Cheskey, one of Canadas pre-eminent bird conservationists, describes the study as mapping out a climate habitat for each species affected. Just as each species has a specific type of habitat with regards to vegetation that its tolerant of, each will have a type of climate made up of rainfall days, dry days and other factors it needs to remain in an area. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.