COLLEEN HANDEL / USGS Alaska Science Center
The black-capped chickadee is the bird most affected by "long-billed syndrome."
Posted on 04/07/2008 2:26:12 PM PDT by Renfield
....This "long-billed syndrome" has been recorded in about 160 birds, mostly in western Washington and southern British Columbia and mostly since 2000. It's also documented in more than 2,100 birds in Alaska, where the deformity seems to have started affecting lots of birds in the early 1990s.
Researchers say the weird beaks appear to be concentrated in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, although reports are coming in from farther south -- from Southern California in one recent case.
The cause remains a mystery. A small band of puzzled, poorly funded scientists is scrambling to find answers. Could it be chemicals? Something genetic? A disease? Maybe a combination?...
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
COLLEEN HANDEL / USGS Alaska Science Center
The black-capped chickadee is the bird most affected by "long-billed syndrome."
Let me guess, PETA or Greenpeace will want to freeze all civilization to ‘fix’ this instead of letting natural selection weed out the mutation.
The first puzzle to solve should be how to get more funding.
Like Pinocchio, maybe the birds have been telling lies.
Roll credits.
APf
It’s “evolving”. That there is a genuine transitional form!
Give them another decade or two and it will become a stork after it grows those stilt like legs....
That’s what I tell the GW cultists at work. It drives them nuts.... I mean nuttier.
Who hasn't lied about having a big pecker?
The problem, of course, is that the beak won't let them eat and they starve.
You owe me some Windex to clean the coffee spew off my monitor. LMAO!
Primary cause is a diet lacking in dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.
You have my sincere sympathies as a bird owner.
Exactly. thats why they included the "poorly funded" hint. The World wildlife Fund can't give them any money, because they need all the money they sucker out of bleeding heart liberals on global warming adds and propaganda, lavish hotels and meals when on global warming get togethers on tropical islands in Indonesia, first class airfare for the entire NGO's staff plus their family and friends.
Global warming and other environmental pollution doesn't seem to be a problem for them as long as it's them burning thousands of gallons of jet fill and filling up a landfill with the garbage equivalent to the output of a small town of 10,000 for their week long tropical excursion.
But don't worry, they have direct access to funds from our government.
the lefties should know what it is! it’s evolution, come on!
Perhaps the new entry in the Taxonomicon should be
Class: Aves, Genus: Clintonus?
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