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Great Tits are Killing Birds and Eating Their Brains. Climate Change May be to Blame.

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 03 2020, @01:06AM   
from the ~blame dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Every year, little black-and-white birds called pied flycatchers make the lengthy trek from sub-saharan Africa to northern Europe to feast on caterpillars, claim a nest, and have babies. This typically goes off without a hitch, and the birds return to Africa a few months later, offspring in tow. But recently, some flycatchers have arrived to find their nesting sites occupied by haughty, territorial great tits. And those birds don't just chase flycatchers away—they brutally attack them, kill them, and eat their brains.

Source: https://www.popsci.com/great-tits-murder-climate-change/

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• Population control Population control (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @07:41AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @07:41AM (#965897)

  And again nothing will be done ... because the ecologists would protest otherwise.

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• Re:Population control (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 03 2020, @07:37PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday March 03 2020, @07:37PM (#966101) Journal

  Yeah, ecologists would NEVER do something about an invasive species!

  FWS Invasive Programs [fws.gov]
  Invasive Species Control [doi.gov]
  Invasive Species Program [usgs.gov]
  Invasive Species [usda.gov]

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