This 4th Of July, Think Of Your Feathered Friends As You Plan For Fireworks
When fireworks go off in the vicinity of birds, the results can be fatal. Stick to commercial shows, experts say.
It was like a scene straight out of Alfred Hitchcock. Late on New Year's Eve 2010, thousands of birds rained from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas.
Some 5,000 red-winged blackbirds, European starlings, common grackles and brown-headed cowbirds suffered blunt-force trauma after colliding with cars, trees and buildings, an ornithologist from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission would tell National Geographic.
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