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Star Tribune: As many as half of Minnesota’s bird species -- including the loon, the beloved state bird -- could disappear because of accelerated climate change.
It’s not the birds themselves that are endangered, it’s the places that they live -- the lakes, the forests, the grasslands -- that are at risk. As those areas disappear, so will the birds that nest there.
“In real estate, it’s ‘location, location, location,’ ” said Bob Janssen, the author of several books about birds in Minnesota. “The bird equivalent......
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Climate change threatens loon, other Minnesota birds, Audubon study finds
Posted by Star Tribune: Jeff Strickler on September 10th, 2014
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