As climate change threatens their food supply, migratory birds may find help in an unlikely place.
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Great tits being studied at a woodland near Oxford are adjusting the timings of their breeding season as the climate changes.
Swifts migrate long distances yet face many threats along their journey. Lack of nest sites is a big problem but installing swift boxes and bricks won’t be the only solution.
Why the weather can be sunny one minute then rainy the next.
Some butterflies are expanding their ranges as the climate changes, others are dwindling.
As temperatures and rainfall patterns change, the time that trees produce catkins could change and affect wildlife that rely on catkins for food.
The last full moon of winter can illuminate earthworms in newly-thawed soil.
Earlier springs due to climate change are wreaking havoc in orchards.
Haiku poems chart flowers appearing earlier and species retreating to the margins.
Wild Seasons will look at how seasonal events are changing amid the climate crisis.
Climate change puts pressure on British butterflies and moths - sometimes pushing them to the edges of their geographical range or shifting the timing of their life cycle so they can’t feed.
Rising air temperatures mean shorter winters and earlier springs.
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PhD Candidate in Creative Writing, University of Bristol
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PhD Candidate, Pollination and Climate Change, University of Reading
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Associate Professor, Ornithology, University of East Anglia
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