2008Jan16: According to The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP), a UK government-sponsored commission, report, the black-legged kittiwake’s “poor breeding success and reduced survival in recent years have been strongly linked to warmer winters and changes to their fish prey populations” (BBC, 2008).
Reference: BBC. 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7191196.stm
Image Description: Rissa tridactyla, Black-legged Kittiwakes, at nest on the Farne Islands, Northumberland. Photo taken 2004Feb13. Image Location: Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kitti.jpg Image Permission: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation license, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
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