'Hundreds of thousands, if not millions': New Mexico sees massive migratory bird deaths
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Thanks for the link... I'm wondering if others are noticing similar in
the SFe area? Or elsewhere? Another "Silent Spring" in the making? We noticed a very large flux in "little yellow birds" (maybe a lesser goldfinch?), possibly more than most years, and they have been showing up dead in unexpected numbers here and there as well. We noticed several acting disoriented or weakly, easy to mistake for "distracting behaviour" as if they had a nest nearby but I think this is too late in the season for nesting/fledging, especially since this is the first time we've seen them this summer? There has been some buzz in the valley (at the Hardware and the Pub and the Grocer) trying to attribute this flux/deaths to local conditions (e.g. blaming LANL, blaming the Aamodt water project, blaming the Pueblos, reopening casinos, masks, Trump Rallies, Sturgis, Immigration, etc.), but nothing larger in perspective or with more than a pretense of rationality. The speculations in the article about "premature migration" and possible latent health damage from flying through (breathing) a lot of smoke both seem plausible (esp. compared to the vernacular speculations in my valley). On 9/15/20 8:07 AM, glen↙↙↙ wrote: > 'Hundreds of thousands, if not millions': New Mexico sees massive migratory bird deaths > https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2020/09/12/mass-deaths-migratory-birds-new-mexico-environment/5780282002/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ |
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On 9/15/20 8:07 AM, glen↙↙↙ wrote: > 'Hundreds of thousands, if not millions': New Mexico sees massive migratory bird deaths > https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2020/09/12/mass-deaths-migratory-birds-new-mexico-environment/5780282002/ https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/southwest-avian-mortality-project an interesting attempt at citizen-science/crowdsourcing this phenomena. - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ |
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