Birds of New York

Authors Zuckerberg et al. (2009) "used the New York State Breeding Birds Atlas, a statewide survey of 5332 25-km² blocks surveyed in 1980-1985 and 2000-2005, to test several predictions that the birds of New York State are responding to climate change."

"As expected," in Zuckerberg et al.'s words, "we found all bird species (n = 129) included in this analysis showed an average northward range shift in their mean latitude of 3.58 km."

Citing a number of other studies, the three New York researchers concluded that "the repeated pattern of a predicted northward shift in bird ranges in various geographic regions of the [Northern Hemisphere] provides compelling evidence that climate change is driving range shifts." And this fact provides "compelling evidence" that Earth's birds did precisely what they should have done, over the period of Zuckerberg et al.'s study, in order to maintain a strong presence on the planet in the face of the rising temperatures (be they natural or anthropogenic) of that period.