Interview: 'The whole eco-system is going backwards' - - Mooroopna birder, Don Roberts

Mooroopna bird enthusiast, Don Roberts, has many favourite birds and one is the Red Cap Robin, pictured here by Russel Jones. Don has fears for the future of many birds as climate change has reached a point where not just birds, but Earth's whole eco-system is sliding into disarray. Here is a short piece Don wrote about birds and heat: "I have three birdbaths in the back yard which borders Gemmill Swamp N.C.R. Once the temperature reached 40 I sprayed the birdbath and adjacent shrubs a mist of water for most of the afternoon and evening, the birds loved it perching in the shrubs to cool themselves. Birds observed were Spotted and Striated Pardalotes, Striated Thornbill, Grey Fantail, Willie Wagtail, White-plumed Honeyeater, Noisy Miner, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Grey Shrike-thrush, Sacred Kingfisher, Magpie, Magpie-Lark, Crested Pigeon, Eastern and Yellow Rosellas, White-throated Treecreeper, Superb Fairy-wren, Blue-faced Honeyeater, New Holland Honeyeater, Red Wattlebird and Little Friarbird the last two species latter left the area as did Welcome Swallows and Noisy Friarbirds, where did they go? Small birds that I would observe on my morning walk at Gemmills prior to this extreme heat have declined in numbers, these are species I would regard as residents, did they succumb to the eight days 40 and over in January." Don records his interactions with birds at "eBird Australia" and more information about birds can be found at "Birdlife Murray-Goulburn". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations