Arkansas: Dead birds falling from the sky and dead fish clogging up the river...

[BrainSellz]

for every record cold i believe we will get a record hot....mo
BOSCO i believe you might be right about the cull...

 

[theJointedOne]

heres my two cents on this matter, it has to do with genetically modified foods. if you look at hte crows in louisiana their migration path puts them coming through the wheat belt. There have been many instances (not reported in the US of course) about animals grazing on genetically modified food and dying within a week. There was a case in asia where Monsanto introduced genetically modified cotton, and a villages water buffalo herd grazed on them and within 3 days EVERY buffalo was dead from bt toxin. Side by side comparisions of growth rates of lab mice being fed genetically modified soy vs real soy show a VAST gap in growth and health. It makes complete sense to me how an entire flock of birds could drop from the sky because if that flock grazed on genetically modified foods the symptoms are clear across the board, death.

agreed, thats why bees in CA are dying off, DNA shifts caused by GMO crop pollution

 

[prefersativas]

Has anyone else heard of the unuaslly cold waters off of the coast of FL? It has said to have killed hundreds of mantatees this year, the manatees cant survive in colder water so they have been huddling near coastal power plants because the water is warmer there.

Manatees are actually an exotic species here in Florida. In many areas it gets too cold for them in winter. As far as I know, they head for the power plants every time it gets very cold. Like colder than 60F water temps. They're cute critters, and friendly too. They like to have they're noses and bellies rubbed, I am not joking. We often have them following the canoe, sort of like big, slow, swimming puppies. But uglier.

 

[itisme]

I am ashamed to be on the planet when such a thing is happening.

We have lost like 90,000 tigers alone, not to mention lions, polar bears etc etc

 

[LovableHuggable]

Since only certain birds and fish have died you can now rule out anything that would kill all of the birds or fish. Should eliminate all pollutants etc.

 

[CrumpleZone]

Since only certain birds and fish have died you can now rule out anything that would kill all of the birds or fish. Should eliminate all pollutants etc.

Yeah, and lots of predators and scavengers (dogs,cats,etc) have eaten the bodies of the dead fish and birds. No related deaths of predators have been reported in the media.

 

[BrainSellz]

so basically the earth "farted" and it killed some birds and fish.... probably true....gives new meaning to the phrase "silent butt deadly"...

 

[Nashashuk]

Bird's dying by mass all aroud the globe?

Bird's dying by mass all aroud the globe?

Sup guys, what do you think about all the birds dying around the world. Normal or not?

 

[StealthDragon]

can you link some of these "all over the globe" stories plz? I haven't seen any official stuff about it.

 

[Iron_Lion]

your too late
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=199992

 

[Haps]

I think somebidy is pissing out of the window of the space station.

 

[SpasticGramps]

There may be something to the bees.

As for the birds....

Media controlling narrative?

 

[BOSCO]

agreed, thats why bees in CA are dying off, DNA shifts caused by GMO crop pollution

IT'S more the fault of intensive agriculture and transporting mass hives around the country than GM is to blame.

Ireland so far is free from ccd and any of the suspected outbreaks are in new hives that are untreated for veroa mites, our hives are stationary and crops are planted to accomodate the bee's not the other way round.

 

[Rukind]

I just think its weird that it is happening all around the world at the same time.. birds and fish.. maybe the bees are related as well

its pretty weird but who knows.

 

[Stoner4Life]

you gotta be fucking kidding me.......

 

[3dDream]

It's not even 2012 and people are gett'in riled up. WTF is next year gonna be like? I am gonna start a thread.

 

[Don Dump]

maybe they're just resting

 

[mriko]

Why Are Birds Falling From the Sky?
The ground truth about this week's bird deaths in Arkansas and elsewhere.


Charles Choi

for National Geographic News

Published January 6, 2011

A mysterious rain of thousands of dead birds darkened New Year's Eve in Arkansas, and this week similar reports streamed in from Louisiana, Sweden, and elsewhere. (See pictures of the Arkansas bird die-off.)

But the in-air bird deaths aren't due to some apocalyptic plague or insidious experiment—they happen all the time, scientists say. The recent buzz, it seems, was mainly hatched by media hype.

At any given time there are "at least ten billion birds in North America ... and there could be as much as 20 billion—and almost half die each year due to natural causes," said ornithologist Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation for the National Audubon Society in Washington, D.C.

But what causes dead birds to fall from the sky en masse? The Arkansas case points to two common culprits: loud noises and crashes.

Beginning at roughly 11:30 p.m. on New Year's Eve Arkansas wildlife officers started hearing reports of birds falling from the sky in a square-mile area of the city of Beebe. Officials estimate that up to 5,000 red-winged blackbirds, European starlings, common grackles, and brown-headed cowbirds fell before midnight.

Results from preliminary testing released Wednesday by the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, show the birds died from blunt-force trauma, supporting preliminary findings released by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission on Monday.

"They collided with cars, trees, buildings, and other stationary objects," said ornithologist Karen Rowe of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

"Right before they began to fall, it appears that really loud booms from professional-grade fireworks—10 to 12 of them, a few seconds apart—were reported in the general vicinity of a roost of the birds, flushing them out," Rowe said.

"There were other, legal fireworks set off at the same time that might have then forced the birds to fly lower than they normally do, below treetop level, and [these] birds have very poor night vision and do not typically fly at night."

The dead birds found in Arkansas are of species that normally congregate in large groups in fall or winter. "The record I've heard is 23 million birds in one roost," Audubon's Butcher said.

"In that context, 5,000 birds dying is a fairly small amount."

(Try National Geographic's online bird identifier.)

A Towering Problem for Birds

Birds often hit objects in flight, especially "tall buildings in cities, or cell phone towers, or wind turbines, or power lines," Butcher said.

"The structures that seem to cause the most deaths are very tall and constantly lit," he said. "On foggy nights, birds that should probably normally be paying attention to the stars get disoriented, and circle around the structures until they collapse" and fall.

(Related: "Migrating Birds Reset 'Compasses' at Sunset, Study Says.")

Collisions with power lines seem to have killed roughly 500 blackbirds and starlings in Louisiana on Tuesday. The 50 to 100 jackdaws found on a street in Sweden that same day showed no signs of disease and also apparently died from blunt-force trauma, according to the Swedish National Veterinary Institute.

Wind, snow, hail, lightning, and other challenges posed by weather can easily kill flying birds too.

For example, "last year a couple of hundred pelicans washed up by the Oregon-Washington border," Butcher said. "A cold front had unexpectedly moved in, and they faced icing on their wings and bodies."

(Also see "Bird Color Mysteries Explained.")

Bird-Death Hype Detracts From True Crises?

Of course, death doesn't just stalk birds from above. For instance, "waterfowl get botulism—and salmonella and avian pox can spread at bird feeders," Butcher said.

No matter how it arrives, death appears to be very much a fact of life for birds. "Young birds that hatch in the spring have an approximately 75 percent chance of not reaching their first birthdays," the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's Rowe said.

"To biologists, these deaths are normal occurrences.

"I wish I could take all this energy and attention on these deaths and direct them toward true crises in wildlife biology, to things like the white-nose syndrome in bats," Rowe added.

She does, though, see a silver lining in the sky-is-falling coverage this week.

"I hope we can raise public awareness of what impact man-made structures can have on other species. How many migratory warblers do you want to kill just to get better cell phone reception?"

From http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110106-birds-falling-from-sky-bird-deaths-arkansas-science/

Irie !

 

[danut]

bio terror attack ..

 

[obamakushberry]

here is a good article about why the birds and fish are dying and some offical just murdered and dumped in a trash can. The source here is non american, a little outside the box if you will.
http://www.eutimes.net/2011/01/top-...fter-arkansas-weapons-test-causes-mass-death/