A dead duck
"I counted over 200 dead ducks on the highway, and can only imagine how many dead ones were out of sight in the ditch," Iowa Department of Natural Resources officer Steve Griebel said in a statement. "It was all different species, mostly bluebills, but there were mallards, buffleheads, teal. It must have been an epic migration."
The birds started migrating when a cold front descended on Canada and the Dakotas. A rare weather phenomenon where a cold front collides with a strong front confused the migrating birds. A strong rain then forced the flocks to land.
"This is a unique, one-time event that there's nothing much we could do about, and should be over now," Orrin Jones, a waterfowl biologist for the state wildlife agency, said in a statement.
Properly licensed residents are allowed to harvest the birds, KCAU reported.
Reader Comments
@Rowan (and Martin):
I think there may be people that still make (or attempt to make) a diet of (fresh) road kill. Around here, you're supposed to get permission from the DNR before 'harvesting' or messing in any way, with that that dead deer ( not that I would), since it (the deer) belongs OFFICIALLY, to them (THE DNR).
I have never hit a deer. I hit a hen pheasant once and ate that. My brother, who drives a lot more than I do, has hit about 7 deer, he told me. He has never eaten any of them, he doesn't have time to fill out the forms required and to pay the necessary fees and deal with all the b.s. And he works for the DNR (Chicks for free.).
So there.
ned,
out