Spring starts earlier and earlier. Since 1960, apple blossoming has been delayed by five days per decade. Birds also breed earlier.
Because the winters are getting milder, many birds such as storks, starlings or wrensels no longer migrate south at all. They still find food on the banks of waterways and a few really frosty days do not bother them. Some blackcaps even no longer fly south, but north: to England. The climate there is relatively mild and there are many birdhouses with food, just like here.
Now, data from 120,000 birdwatchers in 48 countries shows forest birds have expanded their range while area occupied by farmland birds has shrunk.
Quote:Europe’s breeding bird populations have shifted on average one kilometre north every year for the past three decades, likely driven by the climate crisis, according to one of the world’s largest citizen science projects on biodiversity.
Atlas reveals birds pushed further north amid climate crisis