Apparently you can fool mother nature if you are a giant Walmart parking lot. Bird experts said it was the largest bird downing they had ever seen with thousands dead and at least two thousand rescued after migrating birds crashed into a Utah Walmart parking lot mistaking it for a large body of water.
Thousands of migratory birds died on impact after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot and other areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in what one wildlife expert called the worst downing she's ever seen.
Officials say stormy conditions probably confused the flock of grebes, a duck-like aquatic bird likely making its way to Mexico for the winter. The birds tried to land in a Cedar City Wal-Mart parking lot and elsewhere.
"The storm clouds over the top of the city lights made it look like a nice, flat body of water. All the conditions were right," Griffin told The Spectrum newspaper in St. George (http://bit.ly/rYpQbJ). "So the birds landed to rest, but ended up slamming into the pavement."
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There must be a lesson to learn in all this, if we could figure it out.