tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973985529100174047.post6972581288231184458..comments2023-06-22T06:56:08.652-04:00Comments on The Nature In Us: Sudden Bird Deaths Explainedsharingsunshinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07275158327616370321noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973985529100174047.post-10888687498775051912011-01-24T10:11:11.321-05:002011-01-24T10:11:11.321-05:00This is not really an event that doesn't happe...This is not really an event that doesn't happen at other times. The following article link explains the deadly disturbance of all the lights that distract migrating birds. Here's a bit of it:<br /><br /><i>Navigating primarily by the stars, night-migrating birds become disoriented by city lights. They confuse the billions of human-made lights in tall city buildings with starlight--especially in foggy or rainy weather, and especially after midnight, when the birds begin to descend from their peak migration altitude. Once disoriented, many birds collide with the buildings and fall to the sidewalks below. Others, like moths attracted to light, flutter around the lighted windows until they are exhausted. <br /><br /><b>Birds by the hundreds and even thousands can be injured or killed in a single night at just one building.</b> The problem is greatest in cities along flyways and along large bodies of water (such as lakeshores or rivers), which birds follow during migration. Many song birds evolved migrating at night, when predators retire and winds die down, and human-made lights interfere with nature's ways.</i> <a href="http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/NightLights.html" rel="nofollow">Here's the link</a>sharingsunshinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07275158327616370321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973985529100174047.post-77440537014642023412011-01-23T15:06:16.227-05:002011-01-23T15:06:16.227-05:00Personally, it's the same old nonsense w/this ...Personally, it's the same old nonsense w/this explanation & the scientist(s) who reported this basically are saying they really don't know what caused 5000 red wing blackbirds to fall out of the sky on that day in Arkansas. Come on people, there's got to be a more logical explanation. While I understand the cycle of life, I can't accept 5000 of them dropping dead like that.OmaKat55https://www.blogger.com/profile/10798868294975089713noreply@blogger.com