ANIMAL NEWS -

BIRD SWARMS ATTACK TOURISTS

 

 And right they are, it's a bird island and it's nesting season

Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds is bing reenacted in real life on Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast. Tourists dive for cover as swarms of birds dive-bomb and peck people's heads and their cameras. This is bird territory, isolated and used for nesting. Human visitors are regarded as a threat to their babies.

Read more and see pictures of birds attacking visitors : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336823/Dive-bombed-Visitors-attacked-thousands-terns-visit-Farne-Islands-scenes-reminiscent-Alfred-Hitchcocks-The-Birds.html

What these visitors don't realize is that their presence may disturb the normal process of bird reproduction. Stressed birds may abandon their nests.   
 
Read more:  Stress from human activity may cause birds to abandon their nests: http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/130513.html


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Farne Islands, off Northumberland, England - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farne_Islands