From WAND tv

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Springfield Police Department rescued an owl wrapped in fishing line.

Officers brought the owl to the Illinois Raptor Center where experts started untangling the fishing line. They found several hooks and fishing lures caught in the bird’s skin and feathers.

“What we got was a big, beautiful Great Horned Owl who was completely engulfed in fishing line and fishing lures. I have been doing this for 30 years. A bird coming in wrapped up in fishing line is not a surprising thing. I have never seen anything this bad,” said Jacques Nuzzo, Program Director for the Illinois Raptor Center.

The Illinois Raptor Center said they hope to release the owl in a few days.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Thank you for the info. I didn’t even realize how deadly fossil fuels are to birds. Unsurprising that Trump never talks about that when he’s pretending to care about birds.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      They aren’t great for us either. Most stats I saw estimate 5-8 millions deaths worldwide a year due to emissions causing cancer and other diseases. I’d much rather the windmill break up the skyline a bit. At least some people like wind turbines. I can’t think of anyone that thinks coal plants are particularly attractive.

      A new modelling study suggests air pollution, from the use of fossil fuels in industry, power generation, and transportation, accounts for 5.1 million avoidable deaths a year globally. These findings were published in The BMJ.

      The contribution of fossil fuels equates to 61% of a total estimated 8.3 million deaths worldwide due to outdoor air pollution from all sources in 2019.

      The new estimates of fossil fuel-related deaths are larger than most previously reported values, suggesting that phasing out fossil fuels might have a greater impact on attributable mortality than previously thought.

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