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Birders

lordsummerisle

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5. Obviously nobody is worrying more about birds than people (I would hope)

Reply to beachbum bob (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 5, 2017, 09:39 PM

Sep 2017

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...

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How Do Hurricanes Affect Birds? [View all] elleng Sep 2017 OP

I imagine flying insect populations don't hold up very well n/t lordsummerisle Sep 2017 #1

Guess not. Too bad no hurricane in my house past few days; elleng Sep 2017 #2

worry about birds over human life.....is pretty sickening beachbum bob Sep 2017 #3

I see no suggestion that the worry about birds is OVER human life. elleng Sep 2017 #4

Obviously nobody is worrying more about birds than people (I would hope) lordsummerisle Sep 2017 #5

Have you ever seen "The Big Year?" ResIpsa Jan 2018 #6