#bird-deaths — Public Fediverse posts
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Residents of Richmond, a city on the east side of San Francisco Bay, are growing increasingly concerned about a string of mysterious
—and often violent—bird deaths that seem to have no obvious explanation.The deaths all seem to follow a similar pattern:
After a bird lands on a specific stretch of power line,
residents hear a loud popping sound, akin to a firecracker, reports KGO-TV’s Dion Lim.Then, they see the creature’s body fall to the pavement.
A doorbell camera captured one of the strange fatalities on video, too.
The inexplicable incidents have killed mourning doves, European starlings, crows and other common backyard species.
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Building collisions kill a staggering billion birds in the U.S.
each year—an estimate that may be three to five times too low.
Collisions happen year-round, and many birds fly away only to die later from their injuries.
Let's explore how we can stop this.