Scientists not sure why this cold-weather
critter so far south
They typically winter no farther south than New
Jersey. Maybe Hurricane Sandy steered them off course or disrupted their usual
diet of schooling fish.
Biologists aren’t sure why razorbills,
penguin-like birds, have flocked to the Space Coast and elsewhere in Florida.
The black birds with white underbellies flapped
their way to Kennedy Space Center, where Audubon members spotted a few recently
during their annual Christmas Bird Count.
“Everybody’s talking about it,” said Ned Steel,
who coordinates the Audubon count on Merritt Island, which includes the secure
area of the space center.
Blogging birders have dubbed it a “razorbill
invasion of Florida,” posting their photos as proof on a Google pin map.
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