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--Apple-Mail-1-439969255 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 I have commented on the ecological impacts of climate change in an essay = published about a year ago in the Herald. This latest report on the = impact on birds is sobering and mirrors our tragic disregard to the most = important ecological event since we arrived and began our "conquest of = Nature". Thanks for the heads up Jim. Paul Ruggles. On 2014-09-10, at 6:21 PM, Jim Wolford wrote: > I have some historical comments of my own, from 40 years in N.S., but = perhaps related and definitely required reading arrived yesterday as an = item of Birdlife International news: >=20 > 09/09/2014 Climate change threatens 314 North American bird species >=20 >=20 > New study shows that climate change threatens nearly half the bird = species in the continental United States and Canada, including the Bald = Eagle >=20 >=20 > =20 >=20 > =95 Email to a friend =95 >=20 > Begin forwarded message: >=20 >> From: Andrew Stadnyk <Andrew.Stadnyk@Dal.Ca> >> Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Northern Cardinal breeding, HRM >> Date: September 9, 2014 at 10:22:05 AM ADT >> To: "naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >>=20 >> Perhaps this thought has already been cast into naturens and I missed = it, but I think it is worth pondering whether the cardinal infusion, = beautiful bird that it is, is a good thing or not. Is this a symptom of = other more subtle changes that we are not detecting (decline of another = species from the niche, bountiful food of introduced species, etc.)? In = my 20 years in N.S. the cardinal has successfully moved northward. I = have seen the decline of the house sparrow parallel with this event. I = have also heard the insects fall silent in my neighborhood, and am = convinced the number of bees (and butterflies?) is in steady decline. = Why now? (Maybe they rode here on the backs of the grey squirrels; seems = they were introduced in the same geographic area?) >>=20 >> Andy Stadnyk >> Lower Sackville >> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca <naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca> = on behalf of Hubcove@aol.com <Hubcove@aol.com> >> Sent: September 9, 2014 7:40 AM >> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Northern Cardinal breeding, HRM >> =20 >> For the second year in a row we had a successful nesting of a pair on = our property in Hubbards. They, and the offspring have now left. >> Peter Stow >> Hubbards >> =20 >> In a message dated 2014-09-08 10:21:54 P.M. Atlantic Daylight Time, = plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca writes: >> I visited Jean Hartley in Rockingham, HRM yesterday. She reports = that the pair of Northern Cardinals which were hanging about her very = bird-friendly yard this summer (lush multiflora rose tangles) have = produced a fledgling. There is now a young male bird as well. >>=20 >> Patricia L. Chalmers >> Halifac >=20 --Apple-Mail-1-439969255 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I = have commented on the ecological impacts of climate change in an essay = published about a year ago in the Herald. This latest report on the = impact on birds is sobering and mirrors our tragic disregard to the most = important ecological event since we arrived and began our "conquest of = Nature".<div>Thanks for the heads up Jim.<br><div><br></div><div>Paul = Ruggles.</div><div><br><div><div>On 2014-09-10, at 6:21 PM, Jim Wolford = wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I have = some historical comments of my own, from 40 years in N.S., but perhaps = related and definitely required reading arrived yesterday as an item of = Birdlife International news:<div><br></div><div><h3 style=3D"color: = rgb(74, 98, 121); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, = sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.1em; padding: 10px; = background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: left; position: static; = z-index: auto;">09/09/2014 <a = href=3D"http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/924363/23838840/4819653/feeds.feedb= litz.com/~/74107627/0/birdlifetopnews~Climate-change-threatens-North-Ameri= can-bird-species?utm_source=3Dfeedblitz&utm_medium=3DFeedBlitzEmail&am= p;utm_content=3D924363&utm_campaign=3D0" title=3D"external link" = style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">Climate change = threatens 314 North American bird species</a></h3><div style=3D"max-width:= 100%; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: = 14px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: = static; z-index: auto;"><div style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: = 1.3em; color: rgb(63, 74, 80); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, = Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style=3D"margin: 1em 0em; = line-height: 1.3em;">New study shows that climate change threatens = nearly half the bird species in the continental United States and = Canada, including the Bald Eagle</p><img = src=3D"http://www.mailscanner.tv/1x1spacer.gif" width=3D"1" height=3D"1" = alt=3D"Web Bug from = http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/i/74107627/0/birdlifetopnews"><div = style=3D"max-width: 100%; clear: both; padding-top: 0.2em;"><a = title=3D"Like on Facebook" = href=3D"http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/924363/23838840/4819653/feeds.feedb= litz.com/_/28/74107627/BirdLifeTopNews" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 136); = text-decoration: none;"><img height=3D"20" = src=3D"http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/fblike20.png" style=3D"border: 0px; = display: inline; line-height: 14px; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: = 0px; max-width: 100% !important; height: auto !important;"></a> <a = title=3D"Share on Google+" = href=3D"http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/924363/23838840/4819653/feeds.feedb= litz.com/_/30/74107627/BirdLifeTopNews" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 136); = text-decoration: none;"><img height=3D"20" = src=3D"http://assets.feedblitz.com/i/googleplus20.png" style=3D"border: = 0px; display: inline; line-height: 14px; outline: none; margin: 0px; = padding: 0px; max-width: 100% !important; height: auto = !important;"></a> <a title=3D"Add to LinkedIn" = href=3D"http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/924363/23838840/4819653/feeds.feedb= litz.com/_/16/74107627/BirdLifeTopNews" style=3D