The Woods
NPR
Early Tuesday morning, Melissa Breyer set out to do her usual volunteer work — collecting the bodies of migratory birds who had died colliding with skyscrapers in downtown Manhattan.
That morning was much worse than usual. In just over an hour, Breyer picked 226 tiny, lifeless bodies off the sidewalks around the World Trade Center. Another 35 had died but fallen onto inaccessible awnings. Thirty were still alive in need of veterinary aid and were transferred to the care of a wild bird rehabilitation center.
Mass Bird Death Reported in New York City Amid Migration Season
Neenah workers believe eagle dropped carp and damaged vehicle
EENAH – City workers stumbled upon a fishy situation last weekend in the parking lot across from City Hall.
A building inspector noticed significant damage to the hood of one of the cars Monday and contacted the police and insurance agents, according to the Neenah Community Development Department.
Police and the inspector found a dead carp several feet away and determined the damage was caused by an eagle or other large bird that dropped the fish.
“The police said there’s no way someone could have hit (the car) with the fish hard enough to do that kind of damage,” said Neenah office manager Samantha Jefferson. “It had to have come from way far up — it’s crazy.”
BALD EAGLES are BALD-FACED CRIMINALS destroying people's cars. 🦅
The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest
There is another way though—a way for modern medicine to make use of modern technology rather than the blood of an ancient animal. A synthetic substitute for horseshoe-crab blood has been available for 15 years. This is a story about how scientists quietly managed to outdo millions of years of evolution, and why it has taken the rest of the world so long to catch up.