MISTAKE LANDS BIRDS IN HARD PLACE UNTIL TOWN COMES TO AID.Byline: Salt Lake Tribune Like a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock's ``The Birds,'' about 3,000 waterfowl waterfowl, common term for members of the order Anseriformes, wild, aquatic, typically freshwater birds including ducks, geese, and screamers. In Great Britain the term is also used to designate species kept for ornamental purposes on private lakes or ponds, while in fell out of the sky and landed with a thud 1. thud - Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was "foo", "bar", "thud", "blat". 2. thud - Rare term for the hash character, "#" (ASCII 35). See ASCII for other synonyms. instead of a splash in Millard County last week after mistaking snow-covered fields for bodies of water. Once on the ground, the eared grebes, which have giant webbed feet set far back on their bodies, foundered helplessly because they can only become airborne from water. Lynn Zubeck, with the Division of Wildlife Resources in Delta, theorized that the birds were migrating from the Great Salt Lake to warmer areas in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and Mexico in the middle of a snowstorm and became disoriented dis·o·ri·ent tr.v. dis·o·ri·ent·ed, dis·o·ri·ent·ing, dis·o·ri·ents To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation. Adj. 1. . When they saw lights from Delta and highways reflecting off snow-covered fields, they mistook the sight for water and landed - hard. While several hundred of the grebes were found dead in the snow, Zubeck said more than 2,700 of the birds survived. Zubeck called the subsequent rescue operation a great community effort, and said many more of the birds would have died if residents had not volunteered. Pickup trucks full of the birds were taken to a ponds at a wildlife refuge wildlife refuge, haven or sanctuary for animals; an area of land or of land and water set aside and maintained, usually by government or private organization, for the preservation and protection of one or more species of wildlife. , and the Hinckley Volunteer Fire Department made its station a drop-off point. Once on the water, Zubeck said, the birds seemed to calm down. He expected them to start their migration again in several days. The duck-like grebe grebe (grēb), common name for swimming birds found on or near quiet waters in most parts of the world. Grebes resemble the loon and the duck; they have short wings, vestigial tails, and long, individually webbed toes on feet that are set far back , about the size of a pigeon, lives on small fish and insects and uses its big, three-toed feet to run across the water to take off. |
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