Global heating: geese shift migration stop-off northwards

Barnacle geese have begun forsaking traditional feeding stop south of Arctic circle, study finds

Barnacle geese are shifting their migratory patterns northward in response to global heating, new research has found, in a stark indication of how wildlife is being affected by the changes in climate.

In their spring journey from the UK to their breeding grounds on Svalbard, one population of the geese has been forsaking a traditional feeding stop in Norway's Helgeland, south of the Arctic circle, in favour of a stop further north in Vesterilen, far into the Arctic circle.