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	Arctic Geese Skip Migration as Planet Warms

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9-16-2009 7:24 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3a97305b-ced5-4047-adeb-c9e81ce81bc1/9616B425-9ABE-4C0F-8A15-2C9D0654A97D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/birds-migration-warming.html" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/birds-migration-warming.html" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/birds-migration-warming.html"><H1 class="headline">Arctic Geese Skip Migration as Planet Warms</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/birds-migration-warming.html"><P><STRONG>Sept. 16, 2009</STRONG> -- In the Fall of 2007, tens of thousands of small arctic geese called Pacific brant (<EM>Branta bernicla nigricans</EM>) decided not to go south for the winter. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/birds-migration-warming.html"><P>For these long-haul <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/11/migrating-birds-temp.html">migratory birds</A>, it was a dramatic choice -- they usually spend the cold months munching their favorite eel grass in the waters off Mexico's Baja peninsula. But changes in Earth's climate have so affected them that the barren windswept lagoons of <A target="_blank" href="http://geography.howstuffworks.com/united-states/geography-of-alaska.htm">western Alaska</A> are looking more and more appealing. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/birds-migration-warming.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dsc.discovery.com/img/C4D454FE-CA2B-4B33-A75B-7066D0CE3CF5" alt="No Longer Just Summer Birds" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/birds-migration-warming.html"><P>When he began back in the 1970s, only around 4000 birds toughed out the winter in Izembek Lagoon, a 25-mile long stretch of protected water on <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/earth/wide-angle/baked-alaska.html">the Alaska</A> Peninsula. Two autumns ago, the number had climbed to 40,000 -- nearly 30 percent of the total population.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9616B425-9ABE-4C0F-8A15-2C9D0654A97D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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