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From: wcapling@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Wayne Caplinger)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Dead Cape May warbler
Message-ID: <28580@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 14 Sep 89 17:16:09 GMT
References: <15230@siemens.siemens.com>
Reply-To: wcapling@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Wayne Caplinger)
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In article <15230@siemens.siemens.com> tjo@cadillac.siemens.com () writes:
>
>On the way back from lunch today, I found a dead CAPE MAY WARBLER 
>lying outside the Siemens building.
...
>Could it have just become exhausted, incapable of flying, and 
>simply fallen?
>Any other suggestions?

One idea:
I have watched as a pheasant flew into a telephone wire, and fell to the
ground.  This was shortly before sunset, and the bird did not seem to see
the wire.  It was dead when I reached it.
On other occasions I have seen birds strike wires on which they were
attempting to land, but this was the only fatal occurrence.
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