2008Aug15: A dramatic reduction in duck numbers spending the winter at Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland might be because some bodies of water in Europe were no longer freezing over according to the annual State of the UK’s Birds report. Dr Mark Avery, conservation director for the RSPB, said: “This year’s report shows that climate change is with us already and from our gardens to our seas, birds are having to respond rapidly to climate change simply to survive. As often before, birds are acting like the canaries in a mine shaft and giving us early warning of dangerous change” (UK Guardian, 2008).
Reference: UK Guardian. 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/15/wildlife.conservation
Image Description: Lough Neagh at Killywoolaghan. Photo by Kenneth Allen, 2006Dec28. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Loughneagh.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
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