ScienceDaily: Birds are getting bigger in central California, and that was a big surprise for Rae Goodman and her colleagues. Goodman uncovered the trend while working as a graduate student for Associate Professor of Biology Gretchen LeBuhn, analyzing data from thousands of birds caught and released each year at two sites near San Francisco Bay and Point Reyes National Seashore.
The SF State scientists found that birds' wings have grown longer and birds are increasing in mass over the last 27 to 40 years. ......
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Bigger Birds in Central California, Courtesy of Global Climate Change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 1st, 2011
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