Israeli Birdwatcher Finds 30 Migrating White Storks Dead Under Utility Poles in Jordan Valley
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Approximately 30 storks were found dead in a field in Marmaraereğlisi district of Tekirdağ after being electrocuted. Mine Olgaç, President of the Marmaraereğlisi Environmental Volunteers Association, said, "I think it would be very beneficial to bury these electricity poles underground as soon as possible."
Dozens of storks electrocuted by exposed power poles in Israel's Jordan Valley
The deaths are a recurring annual phenomenon in the Jordan Valley, where exposed electrical components on power poles pose a deadly hazard to storks and other birds that stop in the area during migration
Storks are attracted to the Tuban waste site during their migration and land on nearby electricity poles – some of which are exposed. Even though the phenomenon kills many birds every year, the electric company does not protect all the poles in the area. Expert: It's a death trap
Dozens of white storks have died in recent days after being electrocuted by power poles near the Tovlan waste site in the Jordan Valley. The Society for the Protection of Nature warns that this is a recurring phenomenon every year, killing many birds, and calls on the electricity company to protect or bury the power lines in the area. Yotam Bashan, a senior birder at the Society for the Protection of Nature, was driving yesterday (Sunday) on Hig…
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