Showing posts with label Canada geese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada geese. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Mass bird deaths in New Zealand seven days after sonic boom

2024, April 22. New Zealand, Lake Wānaka, Dublin Bay. 100 dead birds, including 85 paradise shelducks, on the shore of Lake Wānaka, and in a nearby paddock a dead black swan, nine Canada geese, three paradise shelduck, and a mallard.

Dead paradise shelducks litter the shoreline at Dublin Bay yesterday. Photo: Otago Fish & Game

Mystery as 100 dead birds found in Wānaka | Otago Daily Times Online News (odt.co.nz)

Sonic Boom heard after meteor.

2024, April 15. New Zealand, South Island, Otago and Southland. Time: 08:17 UT, 20:30NZST. Travelling N.N.W. Sonic boom heard (Delayed).

Before the Beached Pods: The 33-Kiloton Sulawesi Airburst of October 2009

I've been working on the year 2009 for meteor and cetacean stranding links and the next post will concern this. However, it always astou...