Impacts...

As part of this project, one of the criteria is to list the impacts on the local ecosystem when the chickadees come into the neighbourhood. Well, everything kind of changes. First of all, other birds might not have enough food, now that there is a new species of bird in the ecosystem. Hawks, owls, and shrikes capture adult chickadees, but nestlings and eggs are in more danger of being consumed by tree-climbing mammals. So, for the predators, there will be more food, but for others, (like other birds, etc...) there will be less. As an anmal that excavates new nests each season, black-capped chickadees create habitat for other species that rely on nests, in the same ecosystem. Many species that nest in cavities do not have the ability to create nests themselves and are only able to breed where others have abandoned a nest. Black-capped chickadees occasionally eat seeds and berries and likely contribute to a seed distribution. They include bats, possums, gliders, owls, parrots, ducks, as well as numerous species of snakes, frogs and skinks. Unfortunately, some introduced species also use hollows and compete with native wildlife for tree hollows. But... that's the way an ecosystem rolls.

Now... for the impacts humas have on chckadees. There are two ways we can impact chicakdees. Positively and negatively. By giving it a home and food, with a bird house and birdfeeder, we are giving it basic structures for the bird, to help get started on its new life at a new ecosystem. (or it might not be, it could be one that always use to house there) But anyways, by giving it food and shelter, we are helping these birds survive, and it will especially help them during the colder seasons- like in mid-fall and winter and the beginning of spring. Because, you know, as I mentioned in an earlier post- these birds lower their body temperature to help give them a boost of energy in the morning to help itself find food. But if a birdfeeder is like, 2 meters away from it's house, it'll be less tiring for these little guys-because the food's right there.On the other hand, negatively, as we cut down forests, the trees, (and I guarantee you,there will be nest in it) will crash down, and if they don't knock the babies out of the nest, then probbaly and mostlikely, they will be destroyed by the heavy and huge tree crashng down on them. (which isn't a good thing) If the occasion is that the birds are saved, then I guess we are helping these cute and adorable little birds impacting them in a positive way. Still, by us cutting down these trees we are slowly destroyng them, and their existence and the role they play in the world. I'm thinking that there are two possible outcomes of a problem-positive and negative. Am I right??

(Sorry if this kind of long, There's alot to write about. ;)