Saturday, September 29, 2012

Bummer: Carbon dioxide allegedly threatens American Crow population

Heard Up North: Lecture hall becomes a wild forest | NCPR News
Last night veteran journalist Bill Blakemore gave the keynote presentation at St. Lawrence University's Climate Change Forum...Tzintzun Aguilar and Michelle Goldberg were part of a group of students that surprised the audience at St. Lawrence University’s climate change forum last night with a chorus of birdsong. All of the birds represented are considered threatened, and are native to the Adirondack region. They included the Olive-sided Flycatcher, the Magnolia Warbler, and the American Crow.
Terre Haute Battles Crow Problem -This Land - NYTimes.com
[2011] Every fall, as many as 100,000 American crows choose to winter in this pleasant city of 60,000.
Living on Earth: Urban Crow Invasion
[2006] Each winter Auburn, New York is invaded by hundreds of thousands of crows...LATTIMORE: They’re so thick, it’s almost like out of the movie “The Birds.”
2012: They’re ba-a-a-a-ck: Mega-roost of crows a smelly problem for city » Columns » Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, WV
The crows arrive each evening around dusk. Appearing to come from all directions, thousands of them converge above the avenue and begin circling. The sky turns completely black.
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The smell of the droppings — which cover parking lots, sidewalks, buildings and cars — is horrendous. It permeates the air 24 hours a day.

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