Newsgroups: rec.birds
Path: utzoo!rising
From: rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising)
Subject: Power Line Fatality
Message-ID: <1988Sep2.170117.15671@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 88 17:01:17 GMT

I once found a dead snipe that had rammed its upper bill between
wires of a woven power line.  When I found it bird it was hanging
by its bill tip from the wire.  As with the egret reported, death
was probably instant.
--Jim Rising
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Name:   Jim Rising
Mail:   Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
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