ecobirder.blogspot.comI was browsing The Christian Science Monitor on an unrelated search when I came upon this story, that 3000 eared grebes had crashed in Cedar City, Hurricane, and St. George, of Utah's Washington County.
Last year over 4000 dropped from the January sky in Arkansas. People lost their bloody minds. Chicken Little ran amok. A few weeks later when I was on a bus at the Sundance Film Festival, in route to a theater, the topic came up, and of course the Mayan 2012 doomsday deadline was mentioned as a possible explanation.
Science came to rescue us from our the sky is falling end of days hysteria. So too, in today's instance of falling eared grebes. The birds mistook Walmart parking lots, high school football fields, and the snow-covered ground for a lake.
You'll be glad to know that 1500 of those 3000 are alive and being cared for by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resource's southern region.
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