Impact of climate change on pelagic birding

[Laurie Knight <>]

There are some interesting articles reporting rapidly rising  
temperatures in key ocean currents - scientists compared "five ocean  
currents that run along the east coasts of Africa, Japan, the USA,  
Brazil and Australia" and "that over the past century the water in the  
currents has warmed two to three times faster than the rest of the  
world's oceans." <http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2012/s3418386.htm  
>
These temperature changes will affect the distribution of marine life  
and I suspect are likely to impinge on the distributions of pelagic  
bird species.  It would be an interesting exercise to overlay species  
sightings with sea temperatures and to see how bird distributions  
change over time.
Perhaps a thesis topic for someone ...

Regards, Laurie.
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