A migratory bird made a nest in a parking lot in South Carolina – and a utility company found out that it can’t relocate the bird because of a 1918 federal law.
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The Berkeley Electric Cooperative said an employee found a killdeer nest being tended by a mother bird in the company’s parking lot, and officials soon found the nest could not be relocated due to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.
Without prior approval from the Department of Interior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. property owners are prohibited from moving “protected migratory bird species”.
To safeguard the mother and her eggs until the babies hatch, the company put traffic cones around the killdeer nest.
The company wrote in a Facebook post, “We’re helping to preserve the beauty of the Lowcountry in this way too.”