researchers have claimed that giant heat waves caused by global
warming will kill off desert bird communities over the next one
hundred years, and even believe that mass amounts of warming-
related deaths have already begun to occur. Blair Wolf, an
associate professor of biology at the University of New Mexico,
and Andrew McKechnie, from the University of Pretoria in South
Africa, have discovered that temperature increases as low as two
degrees Fahrenheit can affect desert bird populations in a large
way. to these researchers' findings, massive heat waves claim
the lives of several desert bird populations because these birds
release body heat by panting and evaporating water across the
skin, and with increasing temperatures and not enough places for
these birds to find shelter and water, large numbers are dying
off due to heat stroke. and McKechnie found that water is scarce
in deserts, obviously, and birds become inactive when
temperatures rise. Since these heat waves cover large areas, the
birds cannot just