Observed increase in birdkill

i want that ded seagull, i saw it too and also i thought – WTF?

Young and stupid birds everywhere. Just the gene pool taking care of business.

crazy ducks

It’s been Bird Madness out there the past 2 weeks or so. they come diving out of nowhere, in squadrons, raiding the car. So far the brakes have worked. and the ducks who shovel about in the mud just past the Dairy Flat Road/Moreshead roundabout in the mornings yesterday decided to venture out onto the road. In morning rush hour! Brakes and airhorn got a workout. Idiots. Ducks are such fools.

Thanks for all your answers.
While I don’t know whether or not the majority of the carnage observed was young birdkill, I can say that this time last year I wasn’t driving thus wouldn’t have noticed similar springtime carnage.
So, as some of you have said, it could be a regular spring occurrence.

Jeez, that little bugger managed pretty well.

I got him with the air rifle over on the other side of Northbourne.

Suprising how far they can get.

There was a story in the CT this morning (complete with adorable photo) about a baby rosella that had to be rescued from under a car at the Ainslie Football Club last night. Apparently it was small enough to fit in your palm and had got its wing stuck under the car’s wheel (or got driven on).

“I wouldn’t like to hit a pelican in the car.”

An RAAF F-111 hit several Pelicans at high-speed near Evans Head in about 1977: several shredded Pelicans, a dead pilot and navigator was the outcome of that birdstrike.

I imagine a car travelling at 100km/h wouldn’t look to good either after hitting a Pelican.

Young birds, particularly magpies and galahs, are pretty thick, so they get easily bowled over by cars. Ravens are clever, you don’t see too many roadkilled ravens.

The dry conditions can cause some young birds to starve. The recent bit of rain would have been good for food for lots of things though.

I found a dead wattlebird fledgling on the ground in the park. Nothing apparent wrong with it. Could have starved.

I wouldn’t like to hit a pelican in the car.

A couple of years ago several pelicans were found dead around the place. Someone was supposed to test the dead birds but I never heard anything.

A few weeks ago 2 magpies that were fighting in mid air crashed into the roof of my car while I was driving to work in the morning.

It wasnt until I got home that Mrs Danman told me that they were actually doing quite the opposite of fighting.

How awkward would that be.