If only you’d just surrender, give up your fossil fueled vehicle and buy and EV. Or take a bus. Or bike. Or walk
Birds in Chicago laying eggs earlier due to climate change, research suggests
New research released Friday shows Chicago area birds are changing their nesting habits, and it’s connected to the climate crisis.
Inside the Field Museum, John Bates uses the old egg collection to tackle new problems, like this.
“A lot of people think of museums as old places with old dusty data. And that’s not really true. We’re always looking for modern uses of things,” said John Bates, curator of birds at the Field Museum and the study’s lead author
He turned to eggs preserved in the Field Museum more than a hundred years ago. There are 40 to 50,000 eggs in a cramped room, including some that date back to the 1870’s.
Bates and a team of researchers compared the old data to that of eggs collected recently.
They discovered about a third of Chicago area birds lay eggs on average 25 days earlier than they did a century ago.
ZOMG, 25 days earlier! It’s doom! I’m shocked that things change. That never happened before, right? Now, can they compare this time frame with previous Holocene warm periods, several of which were warmer? But, the media received their talking points
- Birds are laying eggs earlier as climate change shifts springs
- Birds breeding earlier as the seasons shift
- Birds are laying their eggs earlier, and climate change is to blame
- Changes to birds’ nesting habits may signal broader climate shift, study says
Surrender, skeptic, surrender.
