IMG_4724 Coot Mortality

31 May 2014

 

This Coot ran into a barbed-wire fence and hung itself. Not a common form of avian mortality, but birds striking man-made objects (windows, wind power generators, fences, etc.) account for millions of deaths every year.

 

Hills Road crossing of Cow Creek below Finnell Lake, Adams County, Washington

 

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