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birds, of which other experts say 99% would survive because, ya know, they can fly away While I can believe many birds can easily survive the initial fire (if
by Johnny555 7y ago
birds, of which other experts say 99% would survive because, ya know, they can fly away
While I can believe many birds can easily survive the initial fire (if the smoke doesn't get them), do they have a 99% one-month survival rate after a large scale disaster like this?
Birds can usually only last a couple days without food, and the fires have affected such a large area that many more birds than usual will be seeking food in the remaining areas -- is there enough food to accommodate them all? And it's not just birds that will be seeking food in the non-fire stricken zones, but also their predators.
- nl 7y agoI posted this elsewhere in the thread, but a fairly old book[1] has bird mortality rates between 40% and 54% for similar fires. [1] https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4f8anIoS33MC&oi=fnd&pg=PA351&dq=Wildlife+mortality+in+bushfires+in+Australia&ots=kGisLYv0km&sig=81d1pW9C_IVGRyZ8fqJfmHCRHaw#v=onepage&q=Wildlife%20mortality%20in%20bushfires%20in%20Australia&f=false https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4f8anIoS33MC&... (page 358)