Great tits cope well with warming

BBC News ^ | Thursday, 8 May 2008 | Richard Black

[KeyesPlease]

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 Holland have not managed to adjust.

[KeyesPlease]

Glad to hear they are adjusting to the warming. Apparently, they used to to only prosper in colder environments.

[Soliton]

Like this is news

[Texican72]

What, no pics????

[Siberian-psycho]

Lots of jokes here

[Always Right]

Apparently, they used to to only prosper in colder environments.

I am not sure prosper is the right word.

[netmilsmom]

The way that FReepers think, this is going to be a fun thread.

[kbennkc]

It is still too cold in Idaho for tits to be out .

[Always Right]

Lots of jokes here

Until it gets pulled.

[Red Badger]

You posted this just for the tit-le!............

[andy58-in-nh]

I saw a nesting pair just this morning. Then, my wife’s alarm clock went off.

[Constitution Day]

Ahem.

[toast]

But are they able to carry a coconut?

[evets]

"I'll drink to that!"

[Red Badger]

“Prosper” and “only” should swap places. Another case of “The Wandering Only”............

[netmilsmom]

How's this?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is a bird thread?

[live+let_live]

Greatest headline of the day alert.

[messierhunter]

I hear african tits can. But european? Surely not!

[Weaponier]

Great tits cope well with warming

Yes they do....yes they do.

[Red Badger]

Writing in the journal Science, they point out that the same birds in Holland have not managed to adjust.

Apparently Dutch tits are still cold.......

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

[Flycatcher]

Dickcissels are doing well too.

[MrB]

OK, good headline, but I still haven’t seen anything to beat

“Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks”

[steveo]

Man holding a great tit.

[popdonnelly]

Is that why Al married Tipper?

[Rebelbase]

Definite contender for thread title of the week.

[Old Professer]

“Their movement to an earlier breeding time does not involve an evolutionary change, the scientists believe - it is simply that individual birds are able to change their behaviour, in the same way that they have presumably adapted to warmer or cooler phases before the era of human-induced global warming.”

Maybe we should refer to the success of great tits as being a response to caterpillar-induced global warming, instead.

[kevao]

My neighbor is a bird enthusiast. She has a really nice pair of tits. She even let me hold them once.

[ovrtaxt]

If you observe them closely enough, you can even detect the ambient temperature.

[GulfBreeze]

mmmhhhhhhhmmmmhhmmmhhmmmmm....

Sorry. I mmmhhhmmhhhhhmmmm .... I got a little something in my caught in my throat.... Sorry.

[dblshot]

“Greatest headline of the day alert”

Breast one today. Ta Ta for now,

[ErnBatavia]

“....and a titter ran through the crowd.....”

[JRios1968]

Glad to hear they are adjusting to the warming. Apparently, they used to to only prosper in colder environments.

They peak out in colder weather...

[JRios1968]

TaЯd ping!

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[KeyesPlease]

The article clearly indicates that they are able to cope despite the changes in their environment. Those that are not able to cope, such as the Dutch ones, will become less and less visible as the temperature changes.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Great tits?....Birders are sexually frustrated!

[WakeUpAndVote]

Here are two beautiful tits.

[GSWarrior]

What about the boobies?

[Revolting cat!]

What about the nipples themselves?

[NewJerseyJoe]

it’s great tits, not great TWITS

[WakeUpAndVote]

And here are two large boobies.

[martin_fierro]

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[Tucker39]

I was pleasantly surprised last February to see lottsa’ tits on the beach in Dominican Republic.........but none of them had wings or ate worms!

[Constitution Day]

I wonder if we can get a federal grant to study great tits on the Outer Banks?

[WakeUpAndVote]

Or a grant to study a whole nest full of nice young tits.

[Constitution Day]

Well! Those are some nice young tits!

[Tucker39]

Please spare us the leftist tree-hugger whacko propaganda!
There IS NO human-induced global warming!

For about the twentieth time now; and this time by a team of German climatologists; there has been no increase in global temperature since 1989.

Lay off the Kool Aid friend. You’re making the rest of us look gullible like you.

[stevio]

And you’re serious too, aren’t you? There should be some kind of suspension for this outrage!