http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/15/bigger-is-better-in-winter/ A Bird Blog with Kate St. John Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/15/bigger-is-better-in-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-22682 Kate St. John Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:39:16 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=62757#comment-22682 kc, I agree! When it’s cold I am always hungry. This is true of birds too. In a book by Berndt Heinrich called Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, I read that chickadees can die of *starvation* on a cold winter night if they don’t eat enough during the day.

]]> http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/02/15/bigger-is-better-in-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-22679 kc Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:25:19 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=62757#comment-22679 Sort of an aside…but I am a small person. I spend a lot of time outside and I live in a freezing cold house. I swear to you that every fall my appetite is markedly greater. I always seem hungry. I don’t know that I gain weight, but my body seems to be wanting me to.

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