Posted on 06/30/2022 8:43:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In a paper published in Wildlife Society Bulletin, researchers collected data for birds causing fires from being electrocuted throughout the contiguous United States from January 2014 through December 2018. There is no central database for this sort of thing, so they got creative. They set up Google Alerts for three keyword searches: bird (and) fire, eagle (and) fire, and hawk (and) fire, and filtered out unrelated results.
Next, they manually sorted through the results and discarded wildfires that were not confirmed to have been started by a bird, looking for photographic evidence of a burned carcass at the ignition site or a statement made by an expert. Lastly, they mapped the fires out against ecoregions to see whether any one area was more susceptible to bird-caused fires than others, per Science’s Richard Kemeny.
The team found a total of 44 wildland fires caused by bird electrocutions in the U.S. within those five years.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
Well, the solution seems simple: ban electricity! /s
Sounds like we need to go bird hunting.
How many are caused by squirrels, AK A Mother Nature’s furry little fuse?
I would have guessed illegals or radical leftards.
Are you suggesting there are other factors besides climate change that can cause fires? You know, ideas can be dangerous. Something might happen to someone who shoots off their mouth a lot, you know what I mean? I don’t know what, I’m just saying, you never know. Well, have a nice day.
Amen......
My electric provider staff actually beleived the squirrel problem was un solvable. I sent them several different manufacturers of rubber caps for transformer leads to prevent the pooblem with squirrels or birds or fish carried by birds.
Once installed, no more power outages
I thought it would have been the Forest Service...
How many fires are caused by illegal aliens flooded in by libtards? 🤪
Ever seen a squirrel on high powered electric lines accidentally ground himself?
Boom, out go the lights and a flying burn rodent soars over the house.
5.56mm
What you have posted is not an excerpt but your comment on the article. Very confusing.
I put out a grass fire caused by a squirrel.
My screen shows an excerpt direct from the OP source article.
Are you logged in? /s
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