We found that desert birds comfortably handled air temperatures exceeding 50°C, without a dramatic increase in their body temperature. They maintained body temperatures below approximately 44.5°C.

When your cooking thermometer reads 165 degrees fahrenheit (or 74 degrees celsius, the minimum safe temperature for poultry, since that's the temperature where salmonella dies), the bird is done.

As heatwaves become more common in the UK, it's important to provide a source of water for garden birds - but there's one ...

Birds have internal cues to prepare for migration. However, the mechanisms by which external cues, such as temperature, fine-tune birds' migration departure times are unclear.

University of Kansas. "Temperature a dominant influence on bird diversity loss in Mexico." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 7 July 2015. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 07 / 150707120216.htm>.