Duck tales... ewwww or Weird Bird Happenings in the News
Now all these stories have popped up in the last two months...cue Rod Serlings voice...NOW
1. 1,500 Homing Pigeons Get Lost During Race
Birds might have been thrown off course by subtle changes in the earth's magnetic field.
--Associated Press
2. Heron colony vanishes--experts clueless in Seattle
Biologists checking in on one of the region's largest heron colonies discovered it was gone.
3. inexplicable disappearance of 28,000 pelicans from a wildlife refuge. The pelicans, of course, abandoned their eggs and nests, leaving experts totally flummoxed.
4.pelicans in Arizona "dive-bombing" head first into asphalt, supposedly mistaking the "shimmering" heat-effected roads for water.
5.According to a new report on Reuters, California's endangered brown pelicans are "mysteriously starving to death during a bumper year for anchovies, their preferred prey....Hundreds of the ungainly sea birds appear to have flown off course in search of food...with young pelicans turning up in Arizona deserts...."
6.Tanzania Probes Flamingo Deaths
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Tanzanian wildlife authorities are investigating the deaths of some 10,000 flamingos over the past month at the Lake Manyara National Park.
1. 1,500 Homing Pigeons Get Lost During Race
Birds might have been thrown off course by subtle changes in the earth's magnetic field.
--Associated Press
2. Heron colony vanishes--experts clueless in Seattle
Biologists checking in on one of the region's largest heron colonies discovered it was gone.
3. inexplicable disappearance of 28,000 pelicans from a wildlife refuge. The pelicans, of course, abandoned their eggs and nests, leaving experts totally flummoxed.
4.pelicans in Arizona "dive-bombing" head first into asphalt, supposedly mistaking the "shimmering" heat-effected roads for water.
5.According to a new report on Reuters, California's endangered brown pelicans are "mysteriously starving to death during a bumper year for anchovies, their preferred prey....Hundreds of the ungainly sea birds appear to have flown off course in search of food...with young pelicans turning up in Arizona deserts...."
6.Tanzania Probes Flamingo Deaths
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Tanzanian wildlife authorities are investigating the deaths of some 10,000 flamingos over the past month at the Lake Manyara National Park.