Nearly a dozen dead birds found around Truxtun Lake, no cause named yet
Hikers and Kern River advocates began finding multiple dead Canada geese in and around Truxtun Lakes starting Thursday. California State University Biology Professor Rae McNeish counted at least 10 dead adult birds along the shore and saw another two on the island, according to an email string SJV Water was included on. “The birds look like they recently died, we’re in pretty good condition overall, and were not wounded,” McNeish wrote in the email string on Thursday. “They look like they just laid down and died.” She also reported she had spoken with a woman, apparently from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, who was at the lake and had bagged a couple of the birds “for testing.”
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