Police accused a 24-year-old hotel employee of recklessly driving a golf cart and mowing down five black skimmers, which are on Florida's threatened and endangered species list.
In the nearly 13 years since, other threats have chipped away at thepopulation, Julie Wraithmell, executive director of Audubon Florida, told The Washington Post. Those include natural predators and coastal development, along with just regular people enjoying the beach, unaware they’re scaring birds away from their nesting territory and forcing them to leave their eggs unattended and vulnerable.On Monday, black skimmers contended with another foe: a rogue hotel golf cart.
Douglas Corbett, director of sales and marketing at JW Marriott, said the hotel was working with officials to handle “this serious matter.” hunt by flying just above the surface, plowing the lower part of their beaks through the water and then snapping them shut when they snag a fish.
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