Bird feeding, migration could be splitting a species

German birds that spend cold months at U.K. birdfeeders now look slightly different from neighbors that migrate to Spain

Backyard feeders plus a strange sense of direction may have begun to split one bird species into two.

NOT FLYING SOUTH Blackcaps in Southern Germany normally head to Spain for the winter, but since the 1960s a persistent minority has been migrating to Britain, with visible evolutionary consequences.