Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
A large gaggle of snow geese blotted out the sky over Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge in Garden City, Missouri, on February 23, as they took part in their annual migration..Footage from US ...
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 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.
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 ...
A volunteer with the World Bird Sanctuary picked it up and brought the 7-pound (3.2-kilogram) adult back to the sanctuary in suburban St. Louis. A bald eagle was shot in the beak. A care team in ...
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 ...
It was expected to bring 4 inches of snow to Wichita, Kansas, and "minor accumulations" of the white stuff to Kansas City, Missouri, into Saturday evening, the National Weather Service said.