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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday March 03 2020, @10:56AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday March 03 2020, @10:56AM (#965933)

    These wounds bleed a lot and eventually get infected.

    That's Komodo dragon strategy. Imagine the family of Great Tits you can raise with dead horses as food sources.

    Seagulls are another menace.

    And crows - you've seen the Hitchcock movie? Could be a prescient documentary, except that the birds don't return to normal after a few days - unless you believe that God created the earth in a few days...

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