Northbound oriole
How climate change may be pushing the Orchard Oriole farther north
Contributed by Paul Kerlinger
Published:
June 25, 2010
Contributing Editor Paul Kerlinger explains how Orchard Oriole and other birds may be expanding their breeding ranges in response to climate change and describes the effect that such range expansions will have on migration. Kerlinger tells how the Orchard Oriole times its migration, late in spring and early in fall, and how it and other songbirds squeeze in a second breeding season each year in western Mexico, a practice known as migratory double-breeding.
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