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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bird strikes happen most often during takeoff or landing, or during low altitude flight. [12] However, bird strikes have also been reported at high altitudes, some as high as 6,000 to 9,000 m (20,000 to 30,000 ft) above the ground. Bar-headed geese have been seen flying as high as 10,175 m (33,383 ft) above sea level.
Snow geese have been swarming into the 7,500-acre Missouri refuge in recent weeks, photos shared on the refuge’s Facebook show. Snow geese stop at the refuge as they migrate north for spring.
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.
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