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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.
Thousands of dead loons, ducks, and seagulls washed ashore, believed to have died from a botulism outbreak. [17] 12 December 2011, in Utah, about 1,500 grebes crash-landed on a Walmart parking lot, a highway, and football fields, apparently mistaking them for a body of water at night. [18]
In New York City, where an estimated 230,000 birds collide with buildings each year, New York's Bird Friendly-Buildings Act [35] required new and existing building be bird friendly effective Jan 1, 2012. In December 2019, a bill passed mandating that the lowest 75 feet of new buildings, and structures above a green roof, must use materials such ...
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Federal investigators have released a preliminary report into the helicopter crash that killed three Air Evac crew members last month, revealing evidence of a possible bird strike.. While the ...
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.
A patient in Missouri who was hospitalized after an infection with bird flu had the H5N1 strain of the virus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Friday.
The killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a large plover found in the Americas.It gets its name from its shrill, two-syllable call, which is often heard. It was described and given its current scientific name in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae.