Storm sweeps dozens of North American landbirds to Britain (www.theguardian.com)

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The reason so many of these birds were turning up – almost all of them along the west coasts of Britain and Ireland – was because of the movement of Hurricane Lee up the eastern seaboard of the US. As it progressed, it met migrant birds heading south, on their way to spend the winter in the tropics, and swept them out over the Atlantic Ocean and towards us.

[...] while birders are delighted, the bigger picture is that more extreme weather, including more frequent hurricanes, is very bad news for these birds’ long-term survival.

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