Warmest French Autumn Since 1950 - Migratory Birds Not Migrating - Reuters

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PARIS - Birds are delaying their annual winter migration to Africa from France because of the unseasonally warm weather, a French bird protection group said on Thursday.

The autumn was the warmest in France since 1950, with temperatures 2.9 degrees Celsius (5.2 F) above seasonal norms, the national weather agency has said.

"Long distance migratory birds -- those that spend the winter in tropical Africa -- seem to be particularly late in leaving this autumn," the League for the Protection of Birds said in a statement.

The league's network of birdwatchers have spotted swallows all over France, including in the north, as well as warblers, which usually leave in August or September.

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39409/story.htm

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1. This is happening everywhere

Back in the late 1990's,I was sitting on my mom's Chicagoland patio and she stared saying. "Listen. Isn't that wonderful?"

She was referring to the gorgeous song of two nesting canaries in one of her backyard trees.

"Actually Mom it's a bit disturbing."

"You don't like those yellow birds?"

"I love them, Mom, but they don't belong in Northern Illinois. Southern Illinois, and Alabama and Arkansas, but Chicago?"

The canaries did migrate by late fall - but they should not have been in Chi-town to begin with.