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How climate change impacts birds

Winchester Academy hosts virtual program

Dr. Alan Haney will present “Birds and Climate Change” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 22.

Hosted by Winchester Academy, this program will be presented virtually.

The broadcast can be heard on WILW 96.3 FM or viewed on WIN-TV, Facebook Live or YouTube.

Viewers can visit www.winchesterwaupaca.org for a hotlink to the program.

Questions to the speakers may be submitted via Facebook or phoned in to 715-942-9917 during the program.

Long before the Atlantic Canary, a distant relative of the American Goldfinch, was first used in British mines to detect unsafe levels of carbon monoxide, people observed birds as a way to predict changes in weather.

With their small size and high metabolism rates, birds, especially passerines, quickly respond to changes in their environment and can be excellent indicators of climatic shifts.

Climate change is different from weather, and it is population trends in birds that inform researchers.

Haney will use numerous examples, some common to central Wisconsin, to illustrate ways in which the rapidly changing climate is affecting birds, mostly in negative ways.

Haney is emeritus professor of forestry in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

His areas of expertise include ecosystem management, land conservation, avian ecology and climate change.

Haney has published 12 books and over four dozen technical papers.

This program is sponsored by Rex and Linda Pope.

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