<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Dennis, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">Thanks for posting this. Research out of the Arctic is always limited. The results here differ quite a bit from the massive Smith et al (2024) paper, which looked at 668 sites over decades and found that most shorebirds were declining. Arctic nesters had declined the most - 63% over the last 40 years. I summarized that paper here and made some of my own graphs from their data:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><a href="https://substack.com/@schampton/p-160037151">https://substack.com/@schampton/p-160037151</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763">I look forward to taking a dive into the papers cited - which also involve large data sets - in this article. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#073763"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Begin forwarded message:<div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div dir="ltr">Interesting article on how various shorebirds are responding to climate change by timing the start of nesting.<div><a href="https://ak.audubon.org/news/arctic-birds-cued-to-climate-change?ms=aud-email-_20250731_(ak)_arctic_green-up_paper&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=_20250731_(ak)_arctic_green-up_paper&emci=92b3f2af-e16b-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&emdi=90f2dc12-956c-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&ceid=583618" target="_blank">https://ak.audubon.org/news/arctic-birds-cued-to-climate-change?ms=aud-email-_20250731_(ak)_arctic_green-up_paper&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=_20250731_(ak)_arctic_green-up_paper&emci=92b3f2af-e16b-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&emdi=90f2dc12-956c-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&ceid=583618</a></div></div>
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