Category Archives: Mountain birds

Birds of upland and mountain areas.

Asian birds’ fate under climate change focus of new study

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

Helping to fill a major knowledge gap on Asian birds, a new study finds that many species in this region would suffer under climate change, which would force them to shift their ranges to keep up. It also highlights the … Continue reading →

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Climate change threatens tropical birds

Posted on February 16, 2012 by
Scissor-tailed hummingbird

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A new paper on tropical birds and climate change by Çağan Şekercioğlu, Richard Primack of Boston University, and Janice Wormworth was released online in Biological Conservation this week. See coverage in the NY Times Green Blog Here are some words … Continue reading →

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Tropical mountain birds in Peru lag behind warming

Posted on December 12, 2011 by
The deep-blue flowerpiercer

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Birds’ ranges appear to be shifting in response to the changing climate. However, as we note in Winged Sentinels, tropical birds could face special constraints in their ability to track climate change in this way. A new study in PLoS … Continue reading →

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Climate change and mountain vultures

Posted on November 18, 2011 by

In Africa, the response of some vulture populations suggests how climate change may directly affect birds in their mountain refuges. Many vulture populations are already declining in the face of a range of human threats, prominent among them poisoning via … Continue reading →

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Exceptions to the rule: climate relicts

Posted on September 15, 2011 by
Tepuis2 - Gran Sabana Venezuela

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Climate relicts offer valuable insights for conservation under global warming, New York Times science journalist Carl Zimmer writes in Yale’s Environment360 blog. On the one hand, these holdouts from former climates on mountains, cliffs, canyons and bogs could face more hostile conditions … Continue reading →

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