The climate is already changing the countryside, which is the pied flycatcher’s home. These changes impact the flycatcher and factors related to its life.
Build up the flycatcher’s domino run and knock down the first domino. What happens to the others?
- Too much carbon dioxide in the air. (The carbon dioxide comes from planes, petrol cars and more.)
- The temperature is rising.
- Insects are coming out of hibernation earlier in the spring.
- The pied flycatcher has spent the winter in Africa and flies home on the same date as always.
- The flycatcher arrives too late and misses out on many tasty insects.
- Fewer butterfly larvae for the flycatcher’s young.
- Fewer flycatchers.