{"id":4094,"date":"2015-05-11T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:53:22","slug":"using-the-climate-to-predict-the-movement-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/using-the-climate-to-predict-the-movement-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the climate to predict the movement of birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4095\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pine_Siskin_Female_10743-Relic38_v2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4095\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4095\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pine_Siskin_Female_10743-Relic38_v2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"The Pine Siskin is a small finch, weighing less than 20 grams, that can be found across North America. (Photo Credit: Darren Swim, Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pine_Siskin_Female_10743-Relic38_v2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pine_Siskin_Female_10743-Relic38_v2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pine Siskin is a small finch, weighing less than 20 grams, that can be found across North America. (Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Relic38#\/media\/File:Pine_Siskin_Female_(10743)-Relic38.JPG\">Darren Swim, Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Future irregular large-scale movements, technically known as irruptions, of boreal seed-eating birds in North America may be predictable using previous climate conditions according to a 24 year study of the Pine Siskin finches travel patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that the birds\u2019 irruptions typically occur in either a north-south or west-east pattern which can be linked with both climate conditions and concomitant areas favourable seed production.<\/p>\n<p>Unusually cool and wet conditions over southern Canada, combined with dry conditions in the U.S. Appalachian Mountains likely drives the bird south to the continental U.S. A similar relationship was found when western Canada is unusually cool and wet and eastern Canada is warm and dry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1418414112\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 11<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Courtenay Strong, University of Utah, Utah, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future irregular large-scale movements, technically known as irruptions, of boreal seed-eating birds in North America may be predictable using previous climate conditions according to a 24 year study of the Pine Siskin finches travel patterns. Researchers have found that the birds\u2019 irruptions typically occur in either a north-south or west-east pattern which can be linked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,114,2428,1444],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-birds","tag-climate","tag-migration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pine_Siskin_Female_10743-Relic38_v2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-142","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}