AC/DC Austrian gig ‘threat to rare birds’!
Melbourne, Dec 26 (ANI): Aussie rockers AC/DC may have to cancel a sold out concert in Austria over fears that their high-voltage rock and roll may have a dramatic impact on a colony of rare birds.
Some 80,000 tickets for the event at Wels airport in northern Austria were snapped up by eager fans in hours but the group has clashed with animal rights groups over concerns of a local bird species called the curlew.ccording to Hans Uhl of BirdLife, the ground-nesting birds would be threatened by the loud music.
“The second biggest colony of curlews in Upper Austria and various other ground-nesting birds must not become endangered,” News.com.au quoted Uhl as telling The Daily Telegraph.
Animal rights campaigners are reportedly threatening legal action if the band goes ahead with the concert in Wels, west of Vienna, in May. (ANI)
Related posts:
- ‘Chimps cannot be considered people’, rules Austrian court
- Thousands of migratory birds converge at Orissa’s Nandankanan Zoo
- Orissa villagers take care of migratory birds
- Healthy “restaurant” improves rare vulture numbers in Nepal
- Dinosaurs may have descended from birds, not the other way around
- Birds on Galapagos Islands develop antibodies to fight alien parasites
- Mike Tyson to front TV show about his love of birds!
- Migrant birds make a beeline for Ranthambore
- Climate change sees fewer birds migrating to wetlands of Sangam
- Migratory birds in arrive Orissa
- World’s smallest satellite tags to track rare Kittlitz’s Murrelet seabirds
- Birds in Gujarat fall victim to glass-coated kite strings
- Birds’ alarm calls to warn friends and foes
- Migratory birds in Kashmir hit by freezing conditions
- Exotic birds, fishes lure visitors to Mumbai exhibition
They’re not animal rights groups in this case as stated in the article but rather conservationists and ornithologists. There’s a big difference.