How Hurricanes Impact Birds: 12 Ways You Never Knew

[@kooale]

You are simply the best! Sooo glad you posted this! We'll return later when we can give you our full attention, meanwhile...we're going through gobs of whole peanuts this morning in town in southern Wisconsin feeding our regulars, two to four blue jays, & a red belly woodpecker couple, & our absolute favorite, the great but rarely seen northern flicker just arrived an hour ago!

[@nesthollow5159]

Oh wow! What a treat to see all that. And what a good reminder... it is peanut time! 🐦🐦

[@aprilkeyes2420]

Thank you for this information. We just experienced a "bomb cyclone" with hurricane force winds here on the west coast of BC which is quite unusual. There was great concern because the highest wind speeds (170km per hr) were recorded over the ecological reserve islands of Sartine, Triangle and Scott at the northern tip of Vancouver Island. A lot of migratory birds inhabit those islands as well as a variety of sea mammals like otters. We are really hoping that somehow the sea birds and some of the mammals were able to ride out the storm as your video suggested.

[@nesthollow5159]

OH wow! 170 Km/hour is insane! I really really hope the wildlife did ok out there. It's really brutal when migration is underway. And my heart kind of breaks for the otters. I read a children's book a few months ago (I don't remember the name) about a little sea otter who was separated from its mother when the waves were really rough. Apparently this happens a lot. The book then talked about how the baby otter was rescued and raised by an adopted otter mom. Later, he got to be released and socialize with the wild otters. The back matter of the book explained the rescue and rehabilitation process and how critical it was to have an adoptive otter mom teach the babies to live in the wild. So hearing about this thing whipping through makes me thing a lot of wildlife rescue centers got pretty busy. Thank you so so much for sharing about this too. It's really cool to learn more from wildlife enthusiasts out there :D

[@erikaerika7788]

We got hilton and thank God everything was fine❤ my local birds are safe ...but the migrating birds i dont know 😮

[@nesthollow5159]

I'm glad you were ok. I don't normally worry too much about hurricanes in FL (fairly safe if you're not on water) but with Milton having those massive wind speeds - ooooffff. And the all the tornadoes! A few here and there, but it seemed like the east coast got slammed.