Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!tivoli!lark From: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Bird War Victims Message-ID: <339@tivoli.UUCP> Date: 28 Jan 91 22:48:14 GMT References: <11153@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Reply-To: lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX Lines: 30 In article misan@ra.abo.fi (Annika Forsten DC) writes: >I don't know much about the birds in Kuwait. I think there was an article >in Birding World a few years ago, but I haven't been able to check it up >yet. I remember the writer felt that many of the sites were already being >destroyed. I'll try to find the article and let you know. > >In general the coasts over there are rather empty (of birds), so the >islets on which the birds breed and those lagoons are the ones in danger. >Luckily most of the breeding birds have not arrived yet. Hopefully they'll Another potential problem is one that we (unfortunately) have plenty of experience of in Texas. Birds, particularly waterfowl and the hawks that prey on them, mistake pools of oil for pools of water. The toll is hard to evaluate, because the owners of these oil pits here are in violation of certain laws. However, if pools of oil appear on a migration path where water is generally scarce, you can expect that many birds will be lost. I am not aware of the flyways used by birds migrating between Africa and Europe and Asia, but I'd like to know more about this. -lar -- Lar Kaufman I would feel more optimistic about a bright future (voice) 512-794-9070 for man if he spent less time proving that he can (fax) 512-794-0623 outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness lark@tivoli.com and respecting her seniority. - E.B. White