I agree, OP. It sounds like comms to me, too. Who describes owls as "powerful owls" -- and more than once? The wording is just odd, but it does draw your attention, which is probably the point.
What's interesting is that 40 of them died. How many "powerful owls" do we have. Forty seems like a reasonable number.
"Many have suffered internal bleeding. Tiny wounds that should have healed seem instead to have proven deadly."
Gunshot wounds?
"Penetrating trauma such as being stabbed, shot, or falling on something sharp can also cause internal bleeding. Anything that enters the body has the potential to tear a hole into blood vessels which will result in bleeding internally."
"trying to raise funds to test the livers of the owls. She thinks the birds have eaten rats or mice killed by shop-bought rodenticides"
Injected poison or an overdose of a blood thinner?
The second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) are substantially more potent than the first-generation compounds, and a lethal dose can be ingested in a single feeding.
Nice breakdown. I spotted a couple of unusual phrases but I'm still not quite yet at the stage to put the comms together yet (learner driver with much to learn and less time than I'd like). It's definitely a real story too, as Australian pedes testify, but the news with this has gone on a while and the specific references have been indicative of something else happening within the context of comms.
I like the implications within your assessment! I'd wondered if it's metaphorical bleeding (of power / blood / life force)- the inability to continue a public role as they become powerless.
I agree, OP. It sounds like comms to me, too. Who describes owls as "powerful owls" -- and more than once? The wording is just odd, but it does draw your attention, which is probably the point.
What's interesting is that 40 of them died. How many "powerful owls" do we have. Forty seems like a reasonable number.
"Many have suffered internal bleeding. Tiny wounds that should have healed seem instead to have proven deadly."
Gunshot wounds?
"Penetrating trauma such as being stabbed, shot, or falling on something sharp can also cause internal bleeding. Anything that enters the body has the potential to tear a hole into blood vessels which will result in bleeding internally."
https://simplyhealth.today/15-common-causes-of-internal-bleeding/4/
"trying to raise funds to test the livers of the owls. She thinks the birds have eaten rats or mice killed by shop-bought rodenticides"
Injected poison or an overdose of a blood thinner?
The second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) are substantially more potent than the first-generation compounds, and a lethal dose can be ingested in a single feeding.
http://saferodentcontrol.org/site/problems-with-rodenticides/
"spreading widely through the food chain."
Deaths are starting to occur from the top-downwards of the pyramid.
Nice breakdown. I spotted a couple of unusual phrases but I'm still not quite yet at the stage to put the comms together yet (learner driver with much to learn and less time than I'd like). It's definitely a real story too, as Australian pedes testify, but the news with this has gone on a while and the specific references have been indicative of something else happening within the context of comms.
I like the implications within your assessment! I'd wondered if it's metaphorical bleeding (of power / blood / life force)- the inability to continue a public role as they become powerless.