sparkfishes
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Chasewater Reservoir, Staffordshire, England
This canal feeder reservoir has been drained for repaires and much of the bottom of the pool is now exposed after over 100 years . While walking across the exposed and dried out "mud flats" I noticed groups of bird bones , some times hundreds and some times thousands of bones - definitely bird bones .
The area is flat with no feature that would cause vortexes or entrapment , or indead islands or preditor harbours.
The bones were in specific places and not evenly distributed - in fact most of the area was devoid of anything except hard dried mud.
The bones were in layers , so have been deposited over several decades.
Having contacted many organisations - and had only one reply!- I have not been able to find a definative cause for these bird grave yards - is there any information out there about this phenonenom?
This canal feeder reservoir has been drained for repaires and much of the bottom of the pool is now exposed after over 100 years . While walking across the exposed and dried out "mud flats" I noticed groups of bird bones , some times hundreds and some times thousands of bones - definitely bird bones .
The area is flat with no feature that would cause vortexes or entrapment , or indead islands or preditor harbours.
The bones were in specific places and not evenly distributed - in fact most of the area was devoid of anything except hard dried mud.
The bones were in layers , so have been deposited over several decades.
Having contacted many organisations - and had only one reply!- I have not been able to find a definative cause for these bird grave yards - is there any information out there about this phenonenom?
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