Ecologists raise concern over chicks’ attempts to escape high temperatures during one of earliest heatwaves on record
Hundreds of baby swifts in southern Spain have died after leaving their nests prematurely, in what ecologists described as an attempt to escape thethe protected species
“You would walk down the street and there would be 100 chicks, lying at the foot of a building, some dying and some barely alive,” said the biologist Elena Moreno Portillo of Ecourbe, a Seville-based association dedicated to conservation in urban areas. These birds often build their nests in building facades or the cavities of roofs, leaving just a small crack open to the outside. “Our buildings are usually made of concrete or metal plates and these get very hot. So it becomes an oven and the chicks, who can’t fly yet, rush out because they can’t stand the temperature inside,” Moreno Portillo said. “They’re literally being cooked.
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