The National Audubon Society has released the Audubon Birds and Climate Report, a study that predicts how climate change could affect the ranges of 588 North American bird species, mapping where each bird's ideal climatic range will be in the future. The Society found that 314 of the species it studied will lose at least 50 percent of their present climatic range by 2080.
Following are a few of the bird species thought by the Society to be at risk from climatic changes, as well as how much of their breeding and wintering ranges they could lose toward the middle and latter part of the century.
Shown here is the brown pelican. The oversized coastal waters resident is a terrific flier, despite its gangly look. It's projected by Audubon's climate models to lose 54 percent of its current non-breeding range by 2080