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Lost flamingo that was heading for Saudi Arabia turns up in Siberia instead


The Siberian Times
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:12 UTC
Local children picked up the bird and took it to the home of Antonina Maisa where the family named it Vasya and fed it on shrimps.
© Alexey KhramtsovLocal children picked up the bird and took it to the home of Antonina Maisa where the family named it Vasya and fed it on shrimps.
The pink bird was 5,330 kilometres off course when it landed in subzero Krasnoyarsk region.

The weak and exhausted flamingo landed on the Angara River, some 397 kilometres north of Krasnoyarsk city. The bird was too frail even to retreat when local children in Motygino village came to inspect it.

Carefully, they picked up the bird and took it to the home of Antonina Maisa where the family named it Vasya and fed it on shrimps. Now the unexpected visitor is gaining strength.

We would like to pass the flamingo to a zoo or shelter with rare birds,' she said. 'Somewhere the flamingo will be comfortable, alongside companions with whom it can communicate. Ideally, the same bird breed, or at least from the same region.'

The head of Motygino village Alexey Khramtsov posted a plea on his Facebook page asking his friends to find a home for the bird.


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Elk seen in South Carolina for the first time in 275 years

Ron Barnett
USA Today
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:26 UTC
Bull elk
Bull elk
For the first time since the Upstate was Cherokee territory, a wild elk has been seen roaming the woodlands of South Carolina.

Northern Pickens County is abuzz with sightings of the bull elk, whose wanderings are being traced on social media.

It's not a descendent of species that once inhabited this area, but more likely a young bull elk that was ousted by the dominant males of a herd of Rocky Mountain elk that have been re-established in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, according to outdoorsman and Pickens County resident Dennis Chastain.

"This is a historic moment that some of us knew would eventually come," Chastain said. "This is the first wild elk to roam the woods and wild places in South Carolina since they disappeared in the early 1700's."

A wild elk was seen roaming in South Carolina for the first time in over two centuries.
© Caleb CassellA wild elk was seen roaming in South Carolina for the first time in over two centuries.
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Brown bear mauls man in Seward, Alaska


Fox News
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:04 UTC
Bear attack
A bear mauled a man out with his dogs before dawn Thursday on a runway of the small airport in the southern Alaska town of Seward, officials said.

The unidentified man was walking or jogging with his dogs on the airport's main runway when he was mauled by the brown bear with two cubs accompanying her, said state transportation department spokeswoman Shannon McCarthy. He suffered injuries described as non-life threatening.

The bear may have attacked the man to protect the cubs, McCarthy said. The airport has signs warning that trespassing is prohibited but is not completely fenced in.

The 55-year-old man used his cellphone to report the attack at 6:46 a.m. and was taken to a hospital for treatment, said Seward Police Chief Tom Clemons.
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Lost oceanic bird seen along Lake Michigan

Steve Miller
chicago.cbslocal.com
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:48 UTC
Shearwater
Shearwater
A rare bird sighting on Lake Michigan — so rare that birders aren't sure what the explanation is.

North of Milwaukee, near Port Washington, Wisconsin: a sighting of a shearwater.

"As far as I know, there has been in recorded history only one previous time when a shearwater has been observed on Lake Michigan," says Joel Greenberg, a board member of the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory.

Someone with the observatory spotted the shearwater.

"These are solely oceanic birds. They nest on islands and coastal areas and spend most of their life on the ocean," Greenberg says.
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Sunflower sea star nearly wiped out by virus in British Columbia waters

Terri Theodore
vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:15 UTC
A sunflower sea star found off Cliff Island, Washington on March 30, 2015
© Joe GaydosA sunflower sea star found off Cliff Island, Washington on March 30, 2015
There was once a galaxy of sunflower seastars in the Salish Sea off the British Columbia and Washington state coasts, but a new study says their near disappearance from the ocean floor should be of special concern.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, say a wasting disease that impacted many starfish from Alaska to Mexico was devastating for the sunflower sea star.

Joseph Gaydos, one of the report's authors and the chief scientist with the SeaDoc Society, said the sunflower that covered the ocean floor in many areas off southern Vancouver Island and Washington state has been virtually wiped out.

"We're really concerned that one could completely disappear," he said in an interview.

The West Coast is renowned for its 28 varieties of seastars, some not found anywhere else in the world. In 2013, divers and researchers started noticing the starfish were dying from a disease that experts couldn't figure out.

Three years later, they believe a virus is at fault, but Gaydos said there may also be other factors such as water temperature that makes certain starfish more susceptible.
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Dozens of dolphin carcasses litter beach in Bangladesh

Sohrab Hossain with Andrew Eagle
The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:36 UTC
Dead dolphin
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At Kuakata Beach in Patuakhali is the tragic end of a beautiful story. Along the shoreline dozens of dolphin carcasses are in various stages of decay. For locals and tourists alike the stench overpowers, makes beachfront enjoyment impossible. Beyond being an inconvenience, the dead dolphins demonstrate what can happen when wild creatures come into contact with human activity: when entangled in fishing nets, the air-breathing dolphins drown.

In Patuakhali, as in coastal areas across the country, fishing communities have inherited the knowledge of generations. They know the sea. Among them it wouldn't be easy to find one who rejoices in a dolphin's death. It's unsurprising.

Apart from the agility and grace dolphins display in the wild, dolphins, like them, have enviable fishing skills.

"I've worked as a fisherman for 20 years," says Nurul Islam, 45, from Alipur village in Patuakhali's Kalapara upazila. "It's beautiful to see dolphin pods swim and jump out of the water. On our boat, the FB Mayer Doa, we never hunt dolphins; we seek hilsa fish. But we find many dolphins that died in fishing nets."
Dead dolphin
Dead dolphin
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Dead whale washes up on coast in Newfoundland, Canada

Colin Farrell
The Southern Gazette
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:24 UTC
A dead whale washed into Joe’s Cove in Lord’s Cove on Sunday.
© Margaret Mary MartinA dead whale washed into Joe’s Cove in Lord’s Cove on Sunday.
A dead whale that washed in over the weekend has the Town of Lord's Cove wondering what course of action to take.

On Sunday, the remains of the mammal were brought into an inlet in the community known as Joe's Cove.

The whale had been coming in and out with the tide.

"It is beached right now," town manager Eileen Harnett told The Southern Gazette on Wednesday.

"On Sunday, it went off quite a ways, but it washed back in again, and it was dead when it came ashore," she said.
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Turrialba volcano's spectacular early morning eruption filmed in Costa Rica

Wendy Anders
The Costa Rica Star
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:02 UTC
Volcanic ash
After many days of small but constant emissions of ash and gases, Costa Rica's Turrialba Volcano, located southeast of the capital city, had a spectacular eruption early this morning.

The event was captured on a home video at 5:25 a.m. by Jesús Edu Jimal from his home in Turrialba.

Some beautiful photos of the eruption, which could be seen from many locales due to the clear weather, were also posted on the National University's Volcanology and Seismology Research Institute Facebook page (Ovsicori-UNA).

Winds blowing southeasterly, as reported by Ovsicori, mean that the ash is not directly affecting the capital city at the moment.

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Lightning bolts kill man and 3 donkeys in Zimbabwe

Whinsley Masara
The Chronicle (Zimbabwe)
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:48 UTC
lightning
A man and three donkeys died after they were struck by lightning in two incidents in Matabeleland North.

A bolt of lightning fatally struck Charles Maponda (32) of Nyamandlovu in Umguza District while he was looking for firewood in a bush on Tuesday.

Maponda, a recently promoted farm employee at Waynne Manroe's Farm, knocked off duty and left alone to fetch firewood in the bush.

Mr Robert Muthethwa, who is a security guard at the Farm, discovered the badly burnt body minutes after he had been struck.

"It started to rain and there was thunder and lightning. I found Maponda in an open space. It looked like he had just been struck by lightning.
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Climate alarmists redefine 'hurricane' to fit warming narrative and deny looming Ice Age will affect Earth

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Thu, 27 Oct 2016 06:42 UTC
NOAA hurricane data
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)

With no hurricanes making landfall in 11 years in the USA, that takes us back to a 1860 record of longest without a hurricane. Since the scary predictions of more and more powerful hurricanes didn't work out for the global warming crowd, now they want to re-define what hurricanes are to make it appear that they are more destructive to fit the narrative of CO2 causes more hurricanes. Also the same crew says that the new Mini Ice Age will have no effect on Earth. What if they are wrong??


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