more GW bad news

[winterbadger]

http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/seabirdfailure.asp

Scotland's seabirds have suffered yet another poor breeding season across much of the country with 2005 seeing the problem moving from the east coast and the Northern Isles over to the west, according to three of Scotland's leading conservation organisations.

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On St Kilda, owned and managed by the NTS, there was a spectacular breeding failure for puffins, with only 26% of burrows producing chicks, which compares to a normal figure of 71%. Canna's kittiwake colony of around a thousand pairs saw its worst recorded year with barely five chicks fledged. A dearth of guillemots and razorbills was also reported on the NTS islands of Mingulay and Berneray. Other west coast colonies, such as the Treshnish Isles and Handa have been reporting very poor breeding seasons.

Warming seas on the east and west coast of Scotland are decreasing the number of sea creatures on which seabirds feed and thus degrading the seabird population. While it's not 100% definite that the rise in temperatures is attributqable to GW, the evidence seems pretty convincing.

Comments

[tispity.livejournal.com]

I've just been reading your earlier post on the subject, it scares me so much that no government is ever going to be brave enough to face the inevitable unpopularity of enforcing the changes and restrictions that need to be made.

It's such a shame that the pig-headedness of our race will impacts on all these other creatures first *sigh*