Condor Editor Pick: Timing of Spring Birdsong Provides Climate Insights

[rdeatsman]

Climate change has scientists worried that birds’ annual migration and reproduction will be thrown out of sync with the seasons. Because birds’ songs are correlated with their breeding behavior and are easily identifiable to species, monitoring birdsong can be a good way to keep tabs on this possibility, and a new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications takes advantage of this approach to provide new baseline data for the birds of northern California. Read the press release at https://americanornithologypubsblog.org/2018/01/17/timing-of-spring-birdsong-provides-climate-insights/.