A wildlife recovery centre in central Spain is sparing no effort to nurse the many bird offspring afflicted by the blistering summer heat back to health so they can be re-released into the wild.
Heat waves have become more frequent in Spain in recent years, part of a global pattern of rising temperatures widely attributed by scientists to human activity.
"Swifts are the 'stars' of the summer because they're the ones that come in the most," CRAS director and veterinary chief, Silvia Villaverde, told Reuters, adding they had exceeded the 1,400-swifts mark so far this year. They are often brought in by hikers who find them lying on the ground after they've either jumped out of their nests or been pushed out by their siblings due to the harrowing heat.
"After a day or two without food, with these high temperatures, they dehydrate very easily," he added.
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