Warmer temperatures and earlier start to spring has affected the life cycles of
Warmer sea temperatures have led to
- shortage of sand eels
- food shortage for birds
- large scale seabird breeding failure in 2004
Climate changes in other parts of the world affect
- migrating birds from the north that winter in Wales
- birds from the south who may move into Wales e.g. little egret, Cetti’s warbler, Dartford warbler
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 Puffin on Skomer island © Photolibrary Wales
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