When I actively participated in reenactments portraying a Union soldier, I was told that the population of vultures or buzzards found today at the sites of some Civil War battlefields dated back to the days of the actual battle.
The battlefields did reportedly attract carrion feeders (lots and lots of horses and other beasts were killed as well as men) and the buzzards were apparently the most noticeable and rather stationary populations compared to crows for example that move around more. In Virginia where I live now, there was extensive deforestation as the armies on both sides need wood for fuel as well as for construction of forts, barracks, hospitals, bridges, etc. this must have affected the local bird populations. Virginia is today once again wooded but these are mostly new growth forests with a different mix of trees than before.
Do you think the karasu and hitsuji are planning something?
Maybe…
When I actively participated in reenactments portraying a Union soldier, I was told that the population of vultures or buzzards found today at the sites of some Civil War battlefields dated back to the days of the actual battle.
Did the war change bird populations?
The battlefields did reportedly attract carrion feeders (lots and lots of horses and other beasts were killed as well as men) and the buzzards were apparently the most noticeable and rather stationary populations compared to crows for example that move around more. In Virginia where I live now, there was extensive deforestation as the armies on both sides need wood for fuel as well as for construction of forts, barracks, hospitals, bridges, etc. this must have affected the local bird populations. Virginia is today once again wooded but these are mostly new growth forests with a different mix of trees than before.
I see, so war is certainly an act that destroys their habitat.