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In March 1904, 1.5 million migrating birds died in Minnesota and Iowa during a strong snowstorm. [5] According to The Guardian, this was the largest avian mortality event on record in the region. [5] Records of MMEs have been kept since the 1880s. [5] MMEs of this size are rare, however, and few before or since have been as big as the 1904 event.
Mortality on wintering grounds: Unreasonably cold temperatures on the wintering grounds kills thousands of birds, resulting in 30-90% population declines of migratory birds. For example, between 27000 and 62000 ducks, mostly tufted duck and common pochard , starved to death during a very cold winter in March 1986.
31 December 2010, in Beebe, Arkansas. 3,000 red-winged blackbirds and European starlings died. Arkansas state wildlife authorities first received reports on 31 December 2010, shortly before midnight. Further investigation revealed the birds fell over a one-mile area of Beebe, with no other dead birds found outside that concentrated zone.
Fifty thousand birds are being destroyed at a Buena Vista turkey facility to contain an episode of bird flu Bird flu reemerges in Iowa, hitting Buena Vista County facility with 50,000 turkeys Skip ...
As government agencies prepare for a potential shutdown, questions about a potentially burgeoning H5N1 bird flu pandemic are top of mind for many public health and agriculture officials.
Spring is here and some tiny, feathered friends will soon be returning to Iowa. Hummingbirds, the birds who get their name from the sound their fast wings make, can expect to be spotted for ...
Climate change has raised the temperature of the Earth by about 1.1 °C (2.0 °F) since the Industrial Revolution.As the extent of future greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation actions determines the climate change scenario taken, warming may increase from present levels by less than 0.4 °C (0.72 °F) with rapid and comprehensive mitigation (the 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) Paris Agreement goal) to ...
DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1958, is located along the banks of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Iowa and Nebraska. The 8,362-acre (3,384 ha) refuge (46% in Iowa, 54% in Nebraska) preserves an area that would have been otherwise lost to cultivation.