The Buffalo News reports that some birds (such as loons, grebes and mergansers) are "grounded" due to the unseasonably cold weather, and ice storms from last weekend.

The incident is "unprecedented," says the Buffalo News. "They just came down and were in all of our waterways. We've never seen anything like this," said Barb Haney, director of wildlife for the SPCA Serving Erie County. "I think they hit a wall of weather and just stopped."

The article explains the phenomenon like this: "when migrating birds sense they don't have enough energy to continue flying through windy, inclement weather and land en masse to search for food and ride out the storm."

The Messinger Woods Wildlife Care and Education Center posted the following message on their Facebook page, regarding the birds:

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