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Andrew Bruce Smith of escherman on technology PR. And George Orwell. Mostly.

Great tits cope well with warming

Someone at the BBC had fun with that headline. It is – of course – referring to the fact that researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars. But you knew that, didn’t you?

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