Migrating birds skip dry Klamath refuges, disrupting annual migration
Just off Stateline Highway, about 100 feet into California from the Oregon border, Klamath National Wildlife Refuge Manager Greg Austin stands on the edge of a marsh. There are flocks of mallards and some geese, but as one of America’s main stopovers for migratory birds, this wetland is almost completely dry this year. … [The refuge currently has room for about 5,000 birds.] They should have 700,000 birds this time of year.