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Related: About this forumHow Do Hurricanes Affect Birds?
When severe weather hits, humans hunker down. But what about the feathered among us?
Birding expert and Audubon field editor Kenn Kaufmans interest in hurricanes began 35 years ago, when he covered the aftermath of Hurricane Kathleen, a storm that brought droves of seabirds into the American Southwest, for American Birds. We spoke to him recently about the surprising methods bird have for dealing with a hurricane in their path.
How do hurricanes affect bird migration?
http://www.audubon.org/news/how-do-hurricanes-affect-birds
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)elleng
(130,891 posts)could have used something to get the buggers out!
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)nature has a way to rebound,,,,the concern should be on the people in the path
elleng
(130,891 posts)There is NO reason to suggest this information is 'sickening.'
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)A hurricane is a major event in an area and there are many effects that naturalists have an interest in. Bird and animal populations come to mind but also coastlines can be greatly altered as well. After major hurricanes islands can be created (or submerged), and beaches can be decimated such that coastal charts have to be redrawn. Some of these effects happened in coastal South Carolina after Hurricane Hugo in 1989...
ResIpsa
(212 posts)One of my favorite movies. A scene in there shows how a hurricane (or really bad weather) drove a seriously concentrated enclave of various birds to an island offshore TX.
Have you yourself done a "Big year" ever?
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