I've been having problems with crows coming in through the doggy door for the past couple of years...

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Approve

Open my pants.

yeah, linked the actual study last week, but that doesn't get greenlit

The new "balloon" bird is awesome.

But yellow bird is still the best.

I, for one, welcome our new avian overlords..

The dinosaurs have just been hibernating through 65 million years of cool climates. As temperatures rise, they will burst forth from their cold-weather shells and again reclaim the Earth.

People are much larger today as well. Must be global warming.

Even our birds are getting fatter. What is wrong with our country?

NobleHam: The dinosaurs have just been hibernating through 65 million years of cool climates. As temperatures rise, they will burst forth from their cold-weather shells and again reclaim the Earth.

this. i hate birds. they harbour the lizard dna...like he said.

MyNameIsMofuga: Even our birds are getting fatter. What is wrong with our country?

Funny you should mention this. I have an uninfomed opinion that the two are related. The same bioengineering of our food supply that is making us larger (not fatter, really, thats some other cause, but LARGER bulk wise) as a people is probably responsible for the birds getting bigger. The birds eat the same grain and fruit we do, they just steal it form the farmers feilds when the scarecrow isnt looking. The worms, bugs, and nematodes birds eat are superworms and superbugs compared to the past, due to the over use of pesticides.

/okay, its far fetched, but its less far fetched than being an effect of "global warming" that even the proponents of admit hasnt yet occurred to any significant extent.

Better headline: Global warming makes tits bigger.

/DRILL BABY, DRILL!!

"Natives had a name for them. José Grecos de Muertos
Flamenco dancers of death

The enormous flies birds flapping slowly away into the sunset. Small brown babies clutched in their beaks...."

It's only a matter of time!

No one listened to Ray Harryhausen until it was too late.

Hide the Whiskey!

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Prince Vultan approves of this development.

Do you want to live forever. Hawkmen... DIIIIIIVVE!

FLASH! Aah-AAAAHHHH!... He's a miracle!

They're probably feasting on all the garbage we throw out, or on the insects it attracts.

Global warming now causes decreased generational time scales to bring about evolutionary change?

The nearest living genetic relative of the T-Rex is the chicken.

/The more you know.

bigger birds means bigger wings. Bigger winds create a bigger breeze. That breeze is working to cool the planet.

All is good.

....or you know, it could just be evolution..... maybe the food supply is more abundant... I have a feeling there are a large number of factors that contribute. I find it interesting that this article goes for "Global warming causes critters to GET BIGGER !!!!

And, of course, it's perhaps slightly possible that humans haven't been monitoring the average size of wild birds for very long or in very great numbers, and such small changes in average size might occur in resposne to much longer cycles or unknown factors completely unrelated to average temperature. Is every observed phenomenon now going to be linked to global warming even though no mechanism is evident?

Very small database is very small.

on the bright side, we'll need fewer eggs to make omelettes

This can only be good news about delicious birds and eating them in a warm climate.
Win/win

NobleHam: The dinosaurs have just been hibernating through 65 million years of cool climates. As temperatures rise, they will burst forth from their cold-weather shells and again reclaim the Earth.

I wish!

NobleHam: The dinosaurs have just been hibernating through 65 million six thousand years of cool climates. As temperatures rise, they will burst forth from their cold-weather shells and again reclaim the Earth.

/FTFY

some_beer_drinker: NobleHam: The dinosaurs have just been hibernating through 65 million years of cool climates. As temperatures rise, they will burst forth from their cold-weather shells and again reclaim the Earth.

this. i hate birds. they harbour the lizard dinosaur dna...like he said.

What's going on in here, guys?

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Apropos, I suppose (pops with large, colorful NSFW text on screen)

/Remember my song...
//Remember my tire iron...

I suspect cats exert a more significant selective pressure in this country than climate change

Increased body mass in response to more frequent storms? Really? let's see some stats on storms first before you start spouting certitudes like that.