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Global Warming is changing their habits!
==="Many Northern American species spending winters" //(// //Global warming changing birds' habits - Climate Change- msnbc.com.// //)//  === The photograph above is a picture of a purple finch 400 miles more north than it usually did during winter.

Because of the temperature rise, not only US but all around the world, It has been changing the bird's habit, Norther bird, Souther bird, regardless. Audubon Society has studied more than 305 bird species in North America. Those birds are such as robin, gulls, chickadees, and owls. THey are now spending their winter 35 to 40 miles more up north. Purple Finch is one of the most known birds for its migration. There used to be a plenty but now rarely found in Springfield, Mo. There are many more reason other than global warming that causes the birds to act differently, for example, maybe the forest has cut all the trees down, or there is not enough food for all. Scientists say that it is definitely because of global warming that are changing the birds. The migration of the birds are instinctual. Although we may not see the difference, when we see these birds doing all the same thing, we know something is changing. //(// //Global warming changing birds' habits - Climate Change- msnbc.com.// //)//

You might be wondering why the birds have to move up more north when they will have more food and a more pleasant time when the weather is warmer because you'll have more food too! However, over the last 40 years, birds have been switch directions or moving farther up north, because the climate in US Fahrenheit 5 degrees has risen. The birds are not yet used to this huge climate change. //(Pringles pg. 11)//

[[image:adf.jpg width="327" height="229" caption="Far away from home" link="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29104238/"]]
This is also a picture of a North American bird, Northern Bobwhite 80 miles more up north than it did 40 years before.

Bibliography WEBSITES "Global warming changing birds' habits - Climate Change- msnbc.com." __Breaking News, Weather, Business, Health, Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Travel, Science, Technology, Local, US & World News- msnbc.com__. 1 June 2009 <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/

PICTURES "Global warming changing birds' habits - Climate Change- msnbc.com." __Breaking News, Weather, Business, Health, Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Travel, Science, Technology, Local, US & World News- msnbc.com__. 1 June 2009 <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/

BOOKS Pringle, Laurence. Global Warming: The Threat of Earth's Changing Climate. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003.