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Nature 422, 29 (6 March 2003) | doi:10.1038/422029a

Climate change: The earlier bird

Arie J. van Noordwijk

Since 1909, researchers have been catching and marking migrating birds that stop over on the island of Helgoland in the southeastern North Sea. These birds breed in Scandinavia and spend the winter in either continental Europe (short-distance migrants) or Africa (long-distance migrants).