Thread: Have you heard about all those dead birds in Ark.?

Wed Jan 5, 6:26 pm ET
Mysterious bird deaths explained
By Andrew Golis

Mystery solved.

It wasn't poison, or lightning, or the end of the world. The thousands of birds found dead on the streets of Beebe, Arkansas, on New Year's Day were killed by... fireworks.

According to USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ireworks_N.htm

It was someone shooting off professional grade fireworks in a residential district, scaring the night-blind birds out of their roost into a 25-mph flight that ran them into houses, signs and even the ground, says Karen Rowe, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist.

Rowe confirmed the cause of death after getting back results from extensive necropsies done on the animals and examining the pattern the birds were found in. Both were consistent with their theory that a startled flock flew up, then quickly back down to find safety and, unable to see at night, hit the ground and other objects at full speed.

The relatively straightforward explanation will likely disappoint some who speculated -- jokingly and not -- that the massive bird death was related to something more sinister.




http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...d-by-fireworks

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Comments

Seems strange that this is the only type of bird that was affected by these fireworks. So - no other type of birds were in the area that also got spooked?? HHmm... Fireworks? I guess that caused thousands of fish to die 80 miles down the road all at once too? The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program ( HAARP) is an ionospheric research program that can knock anything out of the sky. Do some research.

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What I don't understand is how this many birds in I believe they said a 2.5 mile radius are killed from someone shooting off fireworks in a residential area, maybe if they had found a few dead birds in one area, but this sounds pretty far fetched to believe that they would be found 2.5 miles away from some fireworks...I agree that it sounds like there is something our government isn't telling us, what a shock!! And there has to be a connection to the dead fish, just a coincidence? I guess we're supposed to be dumb enough to believe that, not buying it for a second!!

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The Louisiana mass bird deaths come hand in hand with news that scores of fish were found dead in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay while 100,000 fresh water drum fish suddenly died in the Arkansas River, 100 tons of dead fish were discovered in Brazil and dead birds dropped from the sky in Arkansas.

So explain - this report? Firework, REALLY!! Arkansan, Louisiana, Kentucky and now in Brazil.. WOW that was one amazing firework. The bottom line is, so-called Commission ornithologist do not know!!. SO why lie to the people. And on Jan 1, 2011 In Pennsylvania New York, 1000 of birds flew west, 1000's. When it suppose to be South. Something is not right. Something is coming. What ever it's that coming, explain to the people more firework is coming.

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So why doesn't this happen every New Year's Eve, every July 4th ??

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Guys, come on. It's obvious that it was fireworks.

Afterall, think of all the mass bird deaths we see every New Years, Halloween, and every July 4th.

Oh, wait a minute...

In another story they claim that the dead birds in other states are merely coincidental. I guess the masses of dead fish and crustaceans washing up in Haiti, Maryland, Brazil, and Italy all in the past 7 days are coincidental too.

Tricky, those fireworks.

I've not seen or heard anything on any news site about a potential magnetic cause, which would be plausible given that we know the poles are drifting, that the magnetic field has been weakening, and that these types of animals use the magnetic field for navigation.

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Paging Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson…
Thousands of dead red-winged blackbirds falling from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas -- along with reports of a massive fish kill in the Chesapeake Bay where tens of thousands of small fish in the past week. An estimated 2 million fish have been reported dead from the Bay Bridge south to Tangier Sound, according to the Maryland Department of the Environment . Then another bird kill in a small town near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. And if that wasn’t unusual enough; a flock of birds (all Jackdaws) fell from the sky in Falkoping, Sweden (Central Sweden). And the best these scientists can came up with is FIREWORKS! What a LIE! Sorry, Not buying it. More Like A COVER-UP . Were the fish enjoying the fireworks too? Government or military is hiding something once again.

Radio waves - a type of electromagnetic radiation & all electromagnetic waves, travel at the speed of light. The Military's Latest Pandora's Box –The HAARP project otherwise known as "the big boys with their new toys." HAARP is an experiment in the sky being done to find its unknown effects which might just lead to global destruction. Weather modifications to alter the upper atmospheric wind patterns to neurological warfare, etc. - the military has long been studying lasers & chemicals figuring out ways to damage the ozone layer over an enemy & even ways to cause earthquakes ( project named Prime Argus).

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Yeah, that makes perfect sense! That explains why the internal organs showed signs of frost damage and their bodies showed signs of trauma. Oh yeah, it also explains why 100,000 drum fish died 100 miles away, and why no other species of fish died, and also explains the additional 500 birds that died in Louisiana. Makes perfect sense to me. Yawn.... Oh well, I guess I can go back to watching Dancing with Stars....

100s of dead birds found in Nashville area
Jan 6, 2011 - UPDATED: 5:30 p.m.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Hundreds of dead birds have been found this week in Nashville and nearby counties.

In Wilson County just east of Nashville, around 150 grackles were found on the side of the road. According to The Tennessean newspaper, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Ageny says they had deteriorated so badly that a lab could not determine the cause of death.

The agency said hundreds more in Nashville and Montgomery County may have been in flocks of thousands that were circling and some smacked into bridges or other obstacles.

Several other mass bird kills have been reported in recent days, including in western Kentucky, Arkansas and Louisiana. Fireworks and other causes have been attributed to the incidents.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/113...l#comment-form

I get those birds in droves like that about 1 day a year. I may see perhaps one or 2 during the year, but when they migrate, they migrate in thousands! The trees and my backyard is full with them. The first time I saw it happen, it felt like a Hitchcock moment. Since then, it happens one day a year.

Keeping in mind that they are a migrating bird and take their cues from the weather....we've had a lot of strange weather patterns this year, perhaps their migrating is off as well, leaving them a bit disoriented? Out of their usual habitat. Also, apparently these birds have poor vision, couple that with a fright, at night (startled from their nests), disoriented and thousands of panicking birds following one Kamikaze bird leader. I can see that happening.

Either that, or it's a sign that the end of the world is coming.

FACT CHECK: Mass bird, fish deaths occur regularly
Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – Fri Jan 7, 11:08 am ET

WASHINGTON – First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world. Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the "aflockalypse" while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental.

The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated.

Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other. "They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery.

In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California.

On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada. "Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said.

Weather — cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year's Eve when the birds fell out of the sky — is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths.

So what's happening this time?

Blame technology, says famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. With the Internet, cell phones and worldwide communications, people are noticing events, connecting the dots more. "This instant and global communication, it's just a human instinct to read mystery and portents of dangers and wondrous things in events that are unusual," Wilson told The Associated Press on Thursday. "Not to worry, these are not portents that the world is about to come to an end."

Wilson and the others say instant communications — especially when people can whip out smart phones to take pictures of critter carcasses and then post them on the Internet — is giving a skewed view of what is happening in the environment.

The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said.

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AP Researcher Julie Reed Bell contributed to this report.

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Online: USGS: http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/mortality_events/ongoing.jsp



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110107/...ife_fact_check

Comments

I live in the country and I'm pretty much of an outdoorsman and so are most of the people I know and neither I or anyone I know has ever heard of thousands of birds falling from the sky dead. Furthermore, I have friends and family in states around the country and none of them have ever seen or heard of this either. People from all parts of the country are astounded at this story. The only people saying it is common and normal are the media and these scientist they dug up from who knows where. What kind of common event is never seen or heard of before? Are we really going to believe the news media over common sense and what we know to be true? This is not a common event. Something unusual happened. It might ultimately not be a serious problem but something unusual, either poisoning, disease, starvation or something happened that isn,t normal.

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The irony here is that 'news' agencies like yahoo report the die offs and make them noticed instead of pointing out the races that go extinct.

Putting it now like the hype on the Internet is the users fault, nice try.

Who did report it in the first place with some eye catching title?!

Wish people would care as much about Mother Nature as they claim to do.

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For all the government, media, scientists and all other public officials whom have knowledge of what really is going on....Come on! You think America consists of a bunch of stupid monkeys? You are loosing America's trust drastically every day! The majority of us know that there is something direly wrong and that there are alot of hidden truths. The "FACTS" that you are randomly throwing at us does not add up to all the sequences of events that have been and are occuring at this very moment. This is our planet we live on as well. IT IS OUR VERY RIGHT TO KNOW THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO IT.

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Are they blowing smoke up our (cough). If this is a common occurrence how come soooooooo many people never heard of it?. From the reactions of everyone I know, even the elderly has NEVER seen this in their life time other than a few little fish kills with the so called red tide. It's not normal for birds to just fall from the sky.The news papers I read said at first it was fireworks, then power lines they ran into, haha. Easy to believe, lol. Only it's NOT funny and I've got a feeling the truth is not being told.

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It's Bush's fault...

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Bunch of crap is what we are being fed about this. It happens occasionally but this is unprecedented to happen throughout the world at the same time, and very specific species, and sub species. Anthropologists should be consulted about this brush off claim but I've seen die offs due to chemical releases, and lack of oxygen in bodies of water, and I could live with ice spikes with birds at high altitude howevr blunt force trauma is not explained by noise or fireworks?

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No .. wait ... it's Obama's fault ....

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I get somewhat uneasy when you hear of birds and fish suddenly dying. I hope that test the birds or do some sort of autopsy to determine the cause of death. It whatever killed the fish and birds is in the ocean, rivers, lakes, streams as well as the atmosphere or the wind or air circulation and if it affect the animals it may affect us. So I am deeply concerned. At the nuclear power plant fallout they found fish dying as well and the birds dying and borned with birth defects. The soil and air was also affected. So I am concerned about what killed these animals. If the birds or fish was in Louisana it may on been from the oil spill that happened in the golf- you never know- I know birds die of virus other health effects but it should be considered of some hazard that man has imosed into the environment.

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Ummm ... it's Palin's fault ....

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Funny how they fail to mention the multitude of quakes that happened around New Years eve and New Years day, since earthquakes tend to generate magnetic disturbances. Several of them were recorded short distances away from the sites of the bird deaths. Heck, at least they gave the right site to look at. Go to USGS.gov and look it up, the info is there. They left out that small detail though, it's on they're list of recent quakes.

Maybe it was a Klingon Warbird under cloak ... like in the Star Trek movie where they land in a San Fransico park :beammeup: