Grebes Grounded in Crash Landing

December 14, 2011
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More than 4,000 migrating Eared Grebes came to ground in Utah with calamitous consequences, apparently mistaking large parking lots for bodies of water. Thousands of these unwise waterfowl perished, but thousands more have survived and are being tended to by government workers and volunteers. Oh, the humanity! (hat tip to Patrick O’Driscoll)

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Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but he's also a traveler who fully expects to see every bird in the world. Besides founding 10,000 Birds, Mike has also created a number of other entertaining but now extirpated nature blog resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network and I and the Bird.

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BirdingCristina

December 18, 2011 11:20:13 pm

I guess it’s not that hard to mistake a large, empty gray parking lot for a large, empty gray lake. Poor grebes.

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