Migrating birds fly huge distances. As you can imagine, these journeys are adventurous and really exhausting.

One of the most adventurous and dangerous ones is the journey across the deserts, because deserts are hot and vast.

It takes the birds a long time to cross them and at the end the birds are really exhausted!

Climate change increases the temperature in the deserts. The very hot weather means it rains less in the deserts and the regions around them. Without the rain, the soil gets drier and the deserts get even bigger. So the birds’ long flight gets even longer and more exhausting.

At other places on Earth birds do not face problems of crossing deserts. They face other challenges caused by climate change. When the weather gets warmer, due to climate change, the vegetation in some of the birds’ habitats, such as the tundra, changes.

The tundra is a landscape very near the North Pole. It is a very cold place all year round, and it is so cold that the soil freezes and no trees can grow. It has a frozen and moss-covered ground and while we would freeze stiff, birds feel comfortable there and breed on its rocky grounds.

However, the warmer temperatures thaw the ground and let trees grow. This means that the birds cannot breed in the tundra anymore.