Abnormally cold weather in Wisconsin iced up the wings of migrating loons and caused dozens of them to fall from the sky over the past few days
. With more freezing temperatures possible, more of the birds could come tumbling down, loon experts say.their migration season
from places such as the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico to as far north as Canada. In the upper Midwest, they have hit patches of freezing weather that led to rough landings in places such as cow pastures, said Natasha Bartolotta, a spokeswoman for the National Loon Center in Minnesota. Loons are used to water landings and aren’t built to walk on or take off from land.
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