Australia Bird fall (2007)
I thought I would insert this post. a news story that came out of Australia January 10, 2007 .
Wildlife officers are baffled by the “catastrophic” event, which the Department of Environment and Conservation said began well before last week’s freak storm.
…”It’s very substantial. We estimate several thousand birds are dead, although we don’t have a clear number because of the large areas of bushland,” Mr Fitzgerald said.
Birds Australia, the nation’s main bird conservation group, said it had not heard of a similar occurrence. “Not on that scale, and all at the same time, and also the fact that it’s several different species,” chief executive Graeme Hamilton said. “You’d have to call that a most unusual event and one that we’d all have to be concerned about.”