{"id":2182147,"date":"2024-12-15T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2182147"},"modified":"2024-12-14T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T14:35:19","slug":"florida-scrub-jays-suffer-effects-of-warming-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/florida-scrub-jays-suffer-effects-of-warming-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida scrub-jays suffer effects of warming change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida scrub-jays are nesting earlier than they used to as a result of warming winters, which is impacting their populations.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists recently looked at long-term data on the federally threatened bird species from 1981 until 2018.<\/p>\n<p>They found that as winters have warmed, Florida scrub-jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) are not only moving their nesting up a week, but their offspring are also declining.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers speculate that the earlier nesting allows more opportunities for snakes to prey on jay nests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is significantly more snake activity in warmer weather,\u201d said Sahas Barve, lead author of the study and director of avian ecology at Archbold, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd snakes are the primary nest predator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>This <a href=\"https:\/\/wildlife.org\/florida-scrub-jays-suffer-effects-of-warming-change\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=florida-scrub-jays-suffer-effects-of-warming-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">article<\/a> was first published by The Wildlife Society on 2 December 2024. Lead Image: Florida Scrub Jay &#8211; Aphelocoma coerulescens, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida &#8211; Photo by Judy Gallagher.<\/i><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high-quality content.<\/h3>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 1px solid white;\" \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/install-popup-button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" defer><\/script><a class=\"dbox-donation-button\" style=\"background: #3498db; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 8px 24px; border-radius: 5px; gap: 8px; line-height: 24px;\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/focusing-on-wildlife-needs-your-support?amount=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Click here to Support Us<\/a><\/div>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 1px solid white;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida scrub-jays are nesting earlier than they used to as a result of warming winters, which is impacting their populations. Scientists recently looked at long-term data on the federally threatened bird species from 1981 until 2018. They found that as winters have warmed, Florida scrub-jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) are not only moving their nesting up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":2203460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wildlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/44607517724_a4522e46c2_o-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Florida scrub-jays suffer effects of warming change","footnotes":""},"categories":[6985,5],"tags":[32,12376,1834,686],"class_list":["post-2182147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wildlife","tag-florida","tag-florida-scrub-jays","tag-jays","tag-the-wildlife-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2182147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}