Environmentalists call for investigation after birds found dead near reflecting pool
Source: Scripps News
Posted 3:42 PM, Jun 23, 2026
A national environmental advocacy group is calling for an investigation into the deaths of birds at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The Center for Biological Diversity said it is aware of three birds, including a duckling, that have died in and around the pool, which recently underwent a $15 million renovation.
The project, touted by President Donald Trump, included applying a blue coating to the pool's bottom. After the pool was refilled, algae developed and turned the water green. Officials then began using hydrogen peroxide to combat the algae.
"While a definitive investigation is necessary, it is quite probable that dumping of hydrogen peroxide, peeling paint that was used as part of an effort to make the pool look more blue, or algal blooms that followed the restoration effort contributed to the deaths," the Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement.
The group said the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is meant to protect the birds and that the National Park Service is responsible for enforcing the law. "No individual, corporation or government official should be above the nation's wildlife-protection laws," the Center for Biological Diversity said.
Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/environmentalists-call-for-investigation-after-birds-found-dead-near-reflecting-pool
Link to Center for Biological Diversity PRESS RELEASE - Investigation Urged After Ducks Found Dead at Trump’s Reflecting Pool
Link to Center for Biological Diversity LETTER (PDF) - https://biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/pdfs/Request-for-MBTA-enforcement-over-reflecting-pool-bird-deaths.pdf
REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143683728
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And planted there by radical leftists to make Needy Amin look bad!
Those vandalous Antifa agents did this! 
Oh, wait.....Antifa is pro-environment and anti-fascist, aren't they. 🤔
Well......I'm sure it was some other far left-wing organiza.......wait, those radical left-wingers are all tree huggers, aren't they. 
Well, it's gotta be someone who's just trying to make our great president look bad. Yeah,that's it. 
Or could it be Mango Mussolini is completely full of shit, is the absolute worst president in the history of our country, and doesn't know shit from Shinola? Yeah, I'm gonna go with this one. 😁
Pouring gallon jugs into what is basically a 4 block long shallow "lake" was probably ineffective (they would have needed a tanker of the stuff and since peroxide is unstable, it easily breaks down into water and oxygen anyway).
What has so far gotten rid of the most obvious algae, was their literal manual scraping and vacuuming the slime off the slab, section by section. That's what people do with fish tanks (I used to have 3 - freshwater tropical, saltwater marine, and saltwater reef with live sand and live corals). But in this case, that suctioning obviously loosened the coating and who knows what might be leaching into the water.
Bodies of water that are not maintained as highly-treated swimming pools, go through a natural biological cycle and right now, that has been disrupted. I saw some article where some CT-spewing MAGats were whining about someone putting phosphorus in the water. 
Who cares if there are large grassy areas on both side with plants and trees that are routinely fertilized with some N-P-K ratio of fertilizer.
