This is very disturbing (to put it mildly). I've lived here and driven the causeway for 10 years and this is a first. I only witnessed the aftermath of this about an hour after it happened--bird carcasses strewn about the causeway for about a mile.
- The Associated Press
Published 3:16 pm PST Monday, February 11, 2008
Morning rush-hour traffic just west of the state capital was slowed Monday when a flock of birds flew across a causeway and into traffic.
More than 20 birds, most believed to be varying types of waterfowl, were killed on the elevated Yolo Causeway, a section of Interstate 80 that links the cities of West Sacramento and Davis.
Yolo County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Michele Wallace says the birds were struck about 8 a.m. by vehicles traveling in both directions. Traffic slowed to about 40 mph, but there were no reports of damage to vehicles.
The causeway takes I-80 travelers over the Yolo bypass, a swath of farmland two to three miles wide and 40 miles long that acts as an overflow for the Sacramento River.
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