of interest - changes in nesting times

["michael norris" <>]

Hi Brian

I know your posting was about LATE nesting but a trend to EARLY nesting is 
well established in Britain where they have the long-standing breeding birds 
survey.
I know some students have tried to run projects to collect data here on 
breeding dates but I am not aware of any publications.
One item from Britain is:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0603_030603_christmasowls.html

"Climate change" is the probable cause.  I know this term was adopted partly 
because global warming does not necessarily produce warming everywhere and 
the effects on birds are difficult to predict because the whole food chain 
is affected.  But it sounds really mild.  How about "Climate damage"?
Michael Norris