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To: Fast5

Happens frequently here on Dauphin Island. The birds fly all the way across the Gulf Of Mexico and they're so exhausted when they get here, they just quit flying and fall out of the sky when they are over land. There is even a word for it that I can't presently remember.


8 posted on 05/28/2004 3:32:23 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

>>>There is even a word for it that I can't presently remember.

Splat??


10 posted on 05/28/2004 3:40:26 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Life's a beach, and liberals are the sand in your swimsuit that can't be washed away.)
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To: blam
"....they just quit flying and fall out of the sky when they are over land. There is even a word for it that I can't presently remember."

Stall?

26 posted on 05/28/2004 5:32:30 AM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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