In 2018, after decades of research and tens of millions in funding, Russian astronauts attached a wildlife-tracking receiver ...
They were totally gone. The feathers had been cut almost all the way to where they connect to the bone... And the tail is ...
Add ailments like bird flu and pelican wings snapped (seemingly on purpose) to all the new homes displacing wildlife habitat, and you get a perfect storm of feathered, fuzzy and increasingly needy ...