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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on January 18, 2009, 10:49:59 PM

Title: The US Airways Crash: A Growing Bird Hazard
Post by: thundley4 on January 18, 2009, 10:49:59 PM

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While officials use radar and radio collars to track bird populations, habitat destruction and climate change have disrupted migratory patterns. Moreover, the populations of certain species of birds are increasing at rapid rates, thanks to changes in food supply. The Canada-goose population, for example, increased 4-fold from about 1 million birds in 1990 to 3.9 million in 2008, according to Richard Dolbeer, one of the report's co-authors.

It was only a matter of TIME (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1872175,00.html) before climate change got the blame for something like this.