Where the wild aminals go during a storm like Ida?
 

I was watching the news on the hurricane shown trees being blown and waves splashing. Where do these wile animals go like pigeons, other birds, coyotes, deer, or squirrels? Having living the city all my life, I have no clue? How do they survive these things? The flooding will kill them if they are in the dens?

A lot don't make it. Birds can fly out. Deer and other animals can smell smoke way before you can. So they likely follow a path that smells less. They are canny and communicate. Some can dive into water and stay somewhat submerged getting a breath when needed. IDT that's ideal and maybe something like a dog wouldn't know to do that.

But I think you've seen where a lot of domestic and semi domestic animals die. Probably the smoke gets them before the actual fire. Remember, O2 levels are really low in the fire. I think that's part of the definition of death by smoke.

You're probably right about burrowing animals and we wouldn't really know.

Survival of the fittest.

Applies to all species..including us.

I never knew that a groundhog could climb a tree until I saw one do that to avoid flooding. Animals can sense bad weather and know when to head for the hills. Now, if those hills aren't high enough...

In Louisiana? they go on the grill or in the oven....

We were at Coco Plum Caye in Belize several years ago when a tropical storm was in the area. There’s a bird sanctuary island within view of our island. The manager told us to watch the birds on that island. If they fly to higher altitude, it’s time for us to get off the island. I doubt he’s a proper expert but he seemed pretty confident that they’ll fly above the storm.

That doesn't make sense. How long can they stay up there? They will have fly back down, right through the storm or high wind to eat, rest and so on.

as in "you see birds up higher on the mountain and none down near the beach"

I think.... I know that birds that can will move inland, etc. We get lots of seagulls here in the middle of the state when a big storm blows thru Cedar Key.

On mountainous islands, there will be a lee side, animals will move that way and hunker down.

The animals in poor districts start looting.

I've seen small birds pretty far offshore so it doesn't seem too far fetched. They were pretty happy to have a boat to rest on tho.

I did a little research and found that hurricanes are about 50,000 ft tall so no birds flying above it.

I guess they just fly way inland or stay in the eye.

I did find an article about migrating birds changing their mating and migration schedule based on the severity of the hurricane season. So they can predict the severity of the season months in advance.

You can be sure there are balls of fire ants floating all across southern Louisiana today. Best to avoid them.

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When hurricane Andrew hit Miami in 1992, it lifted lots of animals from the zoo and deposited them all over the city. The flamingos in some neighborhoods are survivors of the journey.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-09-20-1992264001-story.html

I have always wondered how birds and other animals survive storms. A few weeks back we had a typical thunderstorm that collapsed overhead. The collapsing winds obviously stop when it his the ground and then it goes sideways. We had 2.25 inches of rain in 15 minutes, and 60 to 70 MPH winds. It knocked off a few small tree limbs but no real damage, not even a power loss. The next morning I went out to check out the yard and house and the humming birds and butterflies were back at the flowers like nothing had happened. I have no idea how they survived that.

Saw on the news earlier where one death is gonna be "by a gator"... I simply can't imagine the horror :(.

I'm sure they know that something is coming and "hunker down." They find a spot that seems shielded and stay there.

I'm sure in really extreme cases that there are animals that die, but in the aftermath of that sort of thing, no one is paying much attention to a tiny animal body compared to the rest of the carnage.