Weatherwatch: How ecologists are helping birds adapt to climate crisis

Moving migratory pied flycatchers further north to breed where food remained resulted in twice as many chicksHow do you help a migratory bird adapt to the climate crisis? One radical solution, as a team of Dutch ecologists discovered, is to move them further north.Pied flycatchers are handsome black-and-white songbirds, which breed in deciduous woodlands across much of temperate Europe. Each autumn, they head south across the Sahara desert to overwinter in west Africa. Continue reading...