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New Year's Eve fireworks send birds into a 'panic state', scientists find

2024-01-01 22:30:00, Kuriozitete CNA

New Year's Eve fireworks send birds into a 'panic state',

Scientists have discovered that New Year's Eve is the worst night of the year for birds.

The sheer volume of fireworks set off in unison at midnight creates a great disturbance to birds and causes many species to fly for an unusually long time, feeling that they may need to avoid imminent danger.

Although birds fly a lot in general, they end up wasting a lot of energy on New Year's Eve by suddenly flying for long periods of time.

This was discovered by Bart Hoekstra, the main author of the study .

"They're not holding up a calendar and saying, 'Oh yeah, it's five days until New Year's Eve again. At midnight, it's going to happen,'" Hoekstra said. 

Some birds can be in the air for up to an hour after New Year's Eve fireworks, causing them to expend extraordinary amounts of energy during one of the coldest times of the year, researchers have found. 

In some cases, the birds spent the next 11 days recovering from using up all that energy, Hoesktra said. 

The findings from the University of Amsterdam are among the latest scientific evidence of the negative effects that human activities have on animals./ CNA





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