Bird collisions
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Thanks for posting Dan - two bizarre stories indeed! The first is sad but
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the policy makers will still do nothing about mandating bird-friendly glass in buildings and the second is truly bizarre - Hopefully, it will get rescued because I can't think the Bellagio fountain has a long enough runway for a loon to take off! On another note, maybe Vegas will become a new birding hotspot, but only virtually of course!:o) Derek (VARC) -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Daniel Bastaja Sent: March 4, 2024 7:45 AM To: Vanbirds <[email protected]> Subject: [vanbcbirds] Bird collisions Just last week we were talking about bird collisions with buildings and now that very thing has claimed a celebrity. Flacco, the Eurasian Eagle Owl that escaped from a zoo and has been living free in lower Manhattan for the past 9 or 10 months collided with a building and died. It was a local celebrity with multiple posts on social media every day about its doings. Too bad. tral-park-zoo#:~:text=Flaco%20was%20found%20dead%20on,liver%2C%E2%80%9D%20th e%20report%20said. In other strange news, if anybody is heading to Vegas in the next day or so, you may want to check the fountain in front of the Bellagio. A Yellow-billed Loon was swimming around in there yesterday! Bizarre! Daniel Bastaja danielbastaja@... |
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Ha! A friend from Powdermill in Pennsylvania sent me a photo of a Pied-billed Grebe that was brought to the banding station as it had landed in a grocery parking lot and couldn't get airborne again - they released it on a pond and it was ok. These birds mistake slick highways and parking lots for bodies of water which is a huge mistake for them - I wonder if the loon mistook the whole concreted area in front of the Bellagio for water, especially with the fountains going?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Daniel Bastaja Sent: March 4, 2024 10:00 AM To: Vanbirds <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [vanbcbirds] Bird collisions The Bellagio fountain is so huge, it¡¯s more like a small lake. So it might have room to take off. Likely blown inland by all those huge storms dumping all that rain and snow on California. But what a place to pick especially with 640 square km Lake Mead right nearby! It had to pick the busiest, noisiest, most neon-lit shallow place with no fish. I can¡¯t imagine it was anything but exhaustion or desperation. Hopefully it will get out of there or be rescued. My sister said it must have a gambling addiction. :D :D DB On Mar 4, 2024, at 18:49, Derek Matthews <Derek@...> wrote: |
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