Thousands of birds abandon eggs, nests on Seahorse Key

[Baitball Blogger]

Thousands of little blue herons, roseate spoonbills, snowy egrets, pelicans and other chattering birds were gone. Nests sat empty in trees; eggs broken and scattered on the muddy ground.

"It's a dead zone now," said Vic Doig, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist. "This is where the largest bird colony on the Gulf Coast of Florida used to be."

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"It's not uncommon for birds to abandon nests," said Peter Frederick, a University of Florida wildlife biologist who has studied Florida's birds for nearly 30 years. "But, in this case, what's puzzling is that all of the species did it all at once."

Doig said some of the Seahorse birds seem to have moved to a nearby island, but they're just a fraction of the tens of thousands of birds that would normally be nesting on the key right now.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/environment/os-ap-birds-abandon-florida-island-20150707-story.html

[realFedUp]

1. Wow

Hmmmmm, disturbing.

[haikugal]

2. Oh, this hurts.....

[KittyWampus]

3. sounds sort of ominous.

[dhill926]

4. really not good....