28-06-2022 12:55 via kxan.com

Hotter temperatures may force common birds away

GEORGETOWN, Texas (KXAN) — Sandra McNeely comes from a family that loves owning nests for a bird known as the Purple Martin, but as the temperatures rose unusually hot this June at her backyard in Georgetown, problems began happening."We were just beginning to find that some of the birds, the babies, were just perishing. It's akin to being stuck in a closed-up car, and it was just not survivable," said McNeely.To keep the birds cool, McNeely and her husband put up a misting hose right next
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