ommercial development projects

You must be doing something with your cars when you are not driving them.

A parking lot is an area (usually paved) on which we park cars. When it rains, the do get wet. We prefer them dry, of course. Wet is just one of the things that happens.

ok ok..so its just a parking lot ....its just wet only...nothing special.

But look what they say ..

Commercial development projects are a threat to migratory birds; migrating geese, for example, may mistake a wet parking lot for a body of water and suffer serious injuries.

Do you really believe that ? how come a development projectss wet parking lot is treated as body of water? I dont get the connection .

point I am trying to make is , is it because those parks are quite big and commercial and so birds just mistake ?

To be honest, I don't know if aquatic fowl get confused by wet parking lots, or not. Personally, I feel that even if they can't tell the difference, they wouldn't be landing in the middle of a bunch of parked cars.

looking down, from high in the sky, onto a wet open paved area may give the impression of an open body of water to a migratory bird.
the birds may make a mistake and try to land.
I seriously have my doubts about that.