This paper presents data obtained from studies of the dependence of different migratory processes - spring arrival, migratory take-off, spring and autumn en route migration - upon climate change in Lithuania. The article confirms the impact of global climate warming on different breeding bird species and populations, changes in their ranges and population state, and their staging and wintering areas. The list of bird species and populations, changes in their ranges and population state, and their staging and wintering areas. The list of bird species which are shifting their ranges north - eastward or eastward in the Baltic region under the influence of global warming is presented. It was established that the impact of global climate change upon birds of terrestrial and wetland complexes is more evident than upon waterfowl. Attention is focused on the practical importance of global climate change impact on environmental protection and different branches of the economy.
This is the ʻAkikiki (Oreomystis bairdi), also called the Kauaʻi Creeper.
It is critically endangered. The bird is endemic to Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi.
It belongs to the Hawaiian honeycreeper subfamily and the family of true finches.
It is a sweet tiny bird about 5 inches in length and about one half ounce in weight.
It has had a tough time staying alive in Hawaii. First there were invasive species introduced to the island in the late 1800s, then it was the mosquitoes; so it finally found a safe haven at the upper elevations of the mountains. But, the habitat is minimal and they are still very few in number because of the loss of habitat.
The State of Hawaii should make a concerted effort to save this species, remove invasive species to their homelands and bring their mosquito populations under control.
Why?
Because global warming is heating up the air in the upper elevations where they live and the mosquitoes are finding their last safe haven a warm place to live now. The Climate Crisis will be the end of the Akikiki if extreme measures are not taken to save it. It will become extinct due to the Climate Crisis.
Between 1971 and 1995, many British bird species began laying their eggs an average of nine days earlier each year. A dozen species in Great Britain have shifted their ranges an average of 12 miles northward in the past 20 years.
