Hail and Birds (1 Viewer)

KC Foggin

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• Apr 27, 2010

• #1

Presently, I've got quarter size hail teeming down for the last 5 minutes. With that size of a piece of ice coming with tremendous force, could that seriously injure or kill a bird?

 

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longbow

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• Apr 28, 2010

• #2

KC, I think a small bird would be in big trouble, but surely the vast majority find cover before getting smacked. I know when it storms here everybody gets out from under pretty darn quick.

 

KC Foggin

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• Apr 28, 2010

• #3

Thanks longbow. I guess I was really concerned about fledglings in the nest. Hopefully they made it through.

 

christineredgate

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• Apr 28, 2010

• #4

Do hope all your fledgings are safe KC.Sounds like pretty horrendous weather .

 

Fozzybear

Ich bin ein Vogelbeobachter

• May 4, 2010

• #5

I had some hail here yesterday, only grain of rice sized though! Confused the birds as the Collared Dove kept picking them up thinking they were seeds.

I do remember a heavy hailstorm (for the UK) when I was a lad where we had a huge number of quite big hailstones (everything was white afterwards) and they knocked out some of our frogs in the garden and a few were killed. Glad we don't really get the kind of hailstorms you get in the US!

 

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spacepilot

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• May 4, 2010

• #6

There was just a heavy hail storm in China's Anhui Province. Thousands of farmed domestic Mallards were killed. The ducks were mostly in the field without shelter. I wonder how the outcome could've been different if there were trees around.

Here is the video interview and its transcript. The video is disturbing, showing ducks dying a slow death. Google translator is not doing a very good job on the villagers vernacular Chinese.

Hails Killed Ducks