“Some domestic bird species able to adapt to ongoing climate change!” says BBC. 
Posted: 09 May 2008 08:20 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Only they didn’t quite put it like that:

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Great tits cope well with warming

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.

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Well it’s nice to know great tits won’t need extensive support in future. Perhaps we’ll be fortunate enough to see more of them flapping about in the air in the summer season.

No information yet on how global warming will affect cocks and wagtails.

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Posted: 10 May 2008 07:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Dang.. and here I was hoping to start a successful tit-warming business..

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Posted: 10 May 2008 11:23 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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83 views so far.

Now change the header for the one that the BBC used and let´s see how many views this topic gets.

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