what happens to fish during hurricanes

Question

Do they make it onto land? where do birds go? if all the bugs drown what happens to the ecosystem?

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

Hurricanes really churn up the surface but that effect diminishes pretty quickly under the surface, assuming the water isn’t too shallow. The fish are fine. Birds, on the other hand, get trapped in the eye and are forced to fly with the hurricane until it falls apart. Or they do.