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The 1938 hurricane that devastated New England carried a number of these great fliers to Vermont, where they found themselves over land, certainly an alien environment. There, exhausted and starving, they died. Once inside the eye of a hurricane, there is no escape for any bird, no matter how strong a flier.
I don’t know what the juvenile female Cardinal would do should a hurricane strike this part of Virginia. She would hunker down in some protected place, as she did in yesterday’s storm, I suppose.
Rain is no problem for birds because their feathers are waterproof and raindrops just run off their bodies. Winds are a different matter entirely
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