10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2015
Will H5N2 Kill Wild Birds? This is the first finding in the Mississippi flyway. . …After five years of efforts, Chinese scientists had developed a kind of inactivated vaccine using H5N2 strain virus separated from a goose in Foshan, south China’s Guangdong Province, which was foundcarrying H5N2 strain virus in 1996.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Alexander Alvarez of Atmore, Alabama, has pled guilty to “killing migratory birds and selling the feathers on the black market” in a killing spree that dates back to 2006. It’s nice to see laws against killing birds and selling their feathers enforced.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
The day after, a colleague and I were flown by helicopter to a small town along the Mississippi River that was still isolated by flood waters nearly three weeks after Katrina tore through. Imagine, though, the chances of being killed in a helicopter by a frigatebird! Oil was everywhere. I’m glad we lived. I wish I had seen the bird.
Critter News
MAY 3, 2010
According to this article, "at least 25 sea turtles have washed up dead on Mississippi beaches over the past few days, according to multiple media reports. So far, there is no evidence that the oil spill killed the turtles, but tests are ongoing." The web page also has a video.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2015
The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History. Researchers observing (live) Mississippi Kites provide very useful information on the timing, paths, and correlation with fronts that I use when releasing my kites.
Critter News
MAY 11, 2010
Seems odd, although officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said that fish they've tested have not been killed by oil, but a lack of oxygen in the water. But why did 60 dead endangered turtles wash up over three weeks? And what about the dead dolphin?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2014
Some abbreviations roll off your tongue and are thus quite helpful – Mourning Doves are MODOs, Peregrine Falcons are PEFAs, Mississippi Kites are MIKIs. So if you’re really busy, instead of slamming down the phone and growling, “This is the fourth fledgling Mourning Dove this week,” you can simply say, “Incoming modo.”.
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