Nightingales at risk due to shorter wings caused by climate crisis
by Patrick Barkham from Environment | The Guardian on (#51HKP)
Migration to European breeding grounds from Africa is harder due to evolutionary changes
The nightingale was feted by John Keats as a "light-winged Dryad of the trees". But the much-celebrated small bird with a beautiful song may be increasingly endangered because its wings are getting shorter.
The nightingale makes an epic journey from sub-Saharan Africa to breed in Europe each summer but there are barely 7,000 nesting pairs left in England.
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