ENVIRONMENTAL  CHANGE

AND BIRDS GALLERY

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on North American bird species. Warming temperatures, storms, shifting seasons, changing participation, as well as eroding coast lines and rising sea levels, are impacting birds.

This exhibition illustrates some common bird on the south California coast – many are declining and or shifting distribution due to climate change while others appear unaffected and even increasing in some areas.

Lesser Goldfinch

Osprey

Red Shouldered Hawk

Male Allen's Hummingbird

Royal Terns

Yellow Rumped Warbler

Northern Mockingbird

Snowy Egret

Black Turnstones

Bushtit

Mourning Dove

Brown Pelican

Black Turnstones in Flight

Anna's Hummingbird on the Nest