Thousands Of Birds Died After Mistaking This Walmart Parking Lot For Water

Business Insider ^ | Dina Spector and Gus Lubin

[GOPJ]

Wildlife officials believe ... confused by storm clouds that made the parking lot look like a flat body of water...

Sorry but that's one nutty explanation... we've had storm clouds too long and under too many circumstances for this to be true.. These folks need to find better 'experts'. Magnetic shifts more likely...

[cornfedcowboy]

This doesn’t compute. When a duck lands on water they don’t dive in from 100ft in the air.

[Robert A Cook PE]

You dove onto a parking lot ... to save a flock of Lone Stars ?????????

[GOPJ]

The reason Walmart traditionally had trouble with newspapers - and the MSM by default - was they would come into a small town - drive out many ‘mom and pops’ - the small business people that keep small newspapers alive - and then they DIDN'T advertise.

Walmart didn't destroy small town newspapers on purpose, it was an unintentional by-product of their low cost philosophy. In recent years they've started running ads - flyer's - in papers and much of the problem has gone away. There's still bad blood from the old Sam Walton days, but it's going away.

[Arrowhead1952]

Or pigeons?

There are a lot of pigeons in downtown Austin, but the grackles outnumber them by a bunch. We see clouds of them and you can't see either end.

[Bender2]

Re: ...to save a flock of Lone Stars ?????????

[PennsylvaniaMom]

My husbands Aunt lives near San Francisco. She has always had a standard poodle for a pet. Back when the World Series quake happened, her doggie started nipping/pulling at her slacks....attempting to pull her out of the house. She took him out and within moments she saw whitecaps on her pool. During other quakes that dog also has helped and alerted her. When he crossed the Rainbow Bridge she adopted another Standard. She lives alone and truly believes that her dogs “know.”

After the Va quake this August, she texted us...and asked if our dogs “acted” up. Ours didnt...but our big boy is t the brightest. She was also the one who first mentioned Jim Berkland and his research to me

[Ramius]

- was they would come into a small town - drive out many ‘mom and pops’ -

I think that's mostly a bad rap, too. The so-called "mom and pop" stores in smaller towns were driven out of business long ago, but by previous chain stores like Ace, JC Penney and others. Walmart's competitors have always been the other chain stores. Those mom-and-pops that people are thinking about haven't really existed since the fifties.

[roadcat]

The #1 killer of birds in the USA: Buildings.

We've had birds crash into our patio window. My daughter solved that by putting Post-It notes on the inside surface of the glass pane. Apparently, at times the glass reflected the image of our garden so well that birds thought they were flying towards our trees. The Post-Its broke up the image.

[Datom]

I swear to God I thought turkeys could fly!

[Nachoman]

“Can anyone find something that grackles will dive into and kill themselves?”

Or pigeons? I hate pigeons!

A supermarket close to me plays recordings of hawks to scare off the birds. It works. Before, their parking lot was like a Hitchcock movie.

[Arrowhead1952]

A supermarket close to me plays recordings of hawks to scare off the birds.

There is an area at Braker LN and 183 in N Austin that needs to do that. I hate to park under any of the trees.

[Georgia Girl 2]

LOL!!!

[calex59]

This is BS, anyone who has ever seen a duck, or other aquatic bird, land on water they land very lightly, they don’t slam into a pond or lake, they gently set down. Something else caused these deaths, not a mistake in the birds perception that it was a lake.

[Eagles6]

“They’re hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement”

[Myrddin]

I swear to God I thought turkeys could fly!

They can. When I go hiking on the north side of Scout Mountain in Pocatello, ID, the turkeys are sitting up in the trees. It's amusing to hear.

[ex91B10]

"...confused by storm clouds that made the parking lot look like a flat body of water..."

Maybe a "downdraft"?

[SunkenCiv]

1) how does this compare to the mass slaughter of birds caused by windmills for electrical generation?

2) is WalMart the only company which builds parking lots?

Thanks fruser1.