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Weather conditions influence bird flight behavior in ways that make them more or less susceptible to collisions. [22] Conditions which reduce visibility, such as fog, rain, or snow, can disorient birds, especially those that migrate at night and rely on visual cues.
Artificial light sources can attract millions of birds to lighthouses, broadcast towers and other buildings, resulting in direct mortality of birds at night. [11] There are less artificial lights during the day, but millions of birds still die due to direct collisions with various human made structures. [ 12 ]
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]
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 polar bear in Alaska has reportedly become the first of its kind to die from H5N1 avian influenza. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed the death of the polar bear, a ...
An Alaskan polar bear has become the first of its species to reportedly die from avian influenza, also known as HBN1, after the disease was first detected in the US in January of 2022.
Aristotle wrote that birds transmuted into other birds or species like fish and animals, which explained their disappearance and reappearance. Aristotle thought many birds disappeared during cold weather because they were torpid , undetected in unseen environments like tree hollows or burrowing down in mud found at the bottom of ponds, then ...
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