A Swiss center is treating distressed birds after soaring temperatures caused them to dehydrate, with chicks even leaping from their nests in a desperate attempt to evade the blistering heat
The Centre Ornithologique de Réadaptation on the outskirts of Geneva admitted around 30 birds a day, many with heat-related ailments, when temperatures soared past 30 degrees Celsius this month.
"This is not an issue we had before," he said, referring to the scores of birds adversely affected by the heat. "Birds will jump out on their own when they are not at all old enough to leave the nest," said biologist Fanny Gonzalez, a specialist in biodiversity conservation who works at the centre.At the centre, which has admitted more than 1,660 birds this year, a group of hatchling sparrows that were found on the ground begged for food, their beaks wide open and their pinkish bodies quivering.
The goal of the centre, which admitted more than 2,400 birds in 2022, is to heal the birds enough for them to live a normal life in the wild.
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