#Rescue birds level 16 update

Make sure he doesn't dehydrate or starve.' 'He was just stunned, confused, he couldn't fly,' Maria Brenez, with Carolina Waterfowl Rescue, said of one bird. Hollie Cameron’s disturbing cellphone video from that night shows dozens of birds lying on the ground outside the building, and captures other birds crashing into the large windows. Some have been moved to other places where they can heal faster, and a team may drive them to Florida to help with their migration. “The ones with fractures, it might be two weeks,” Keenan said about the recovery process. Rescue workers had to feed the birds during their recovery, which is stressful because the birds instinctively catch insects in the air on the way to Chile or Peru for the winter.

However, because this is such a strange and rare occurrence we are sending the carcasses to for further study and evaluation.'

#Rescue birds level 16 update

The rescue posted an update Thursday on Facebook: 'We did not see any evidence of disease and any of the birds. “They don’t have very good depth perception, so they don’t know there was a window there,” Keenan said.Ĭarolina Waterfowl Rescue was able to get 135 of them into the air to migrate to safety.

The rest appeared to be stunned but will be OK, the organization said. Roughly one-third of those birds were dead when they arrived, and another third was seriously injured. They said a total of 310 birds hit the windows of the building. “It’s great feeling knowing we are helping a declining species,” said Keenan Freitas, with Carolina Waterfowl Rescue.Ĭhannel 9 reporter Gina Esposito spoke with the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue, who said their rehab team responded to the NASCAR Hall of Fame around 11 p.m. Some more birds recovered and were released Thursday at the rescue. Rescue officials told Channel 9 it was not a naturally occurring event and the birds’ migration could not have been a factor because the swifts only migrate during the day.