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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Virginia
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Officials probe 'unusual' mass deaths of birds in two states - CNN.com
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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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I also have a hard time believing that lightning would do such a thing. Or fireworks. I wonder if we'll ever really know?
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: North Bergen / Cliffside Park New Jersey
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Lightening.
Heh. I would say that would leave some evidence. The comedic value would be high however. Has anyone taken it upon themselves to autopsy these poor unfortunates? To totally threadjack, since I am home from work sitting with a nice glass of American Pale Ale, would anyone believe me if I said I saw ball lightening once? It took me years to realise what it was. There was lightening, near the house, and I was watching as it struck co-incidentally. When the bolt was finished I saw what I defined as "air on fire". I watched it for a bit, it didn't vary in size, it just looked like a ball of white. I had no idea what it was, nothing was there to burn, but it emitted light. For years I was wondering how the lightening managed to set air on fire. Air is most N, does that burn? And so on. Then I saw some breathless documentary about ball lightening, and eventually something seemed familiar. Madness altogether! |
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Grub
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Virginia
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Dead fish and birds: Hundreds of dead birds found in Kentucky - National Cultural Oddities | Examiner.com
Dead birds and fish are showing up in other countries.
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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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50 CFR 21.43 - Depredation order for blackbirds, cowbirds, grackles, crows and magpies. - Code of Federal Regulations - Title 50: Wildlife and Fisheries - Subpart D: Control of depredating birds - vLex
I was sent this text from a retired wildlife manager of our local Refuge. According to him, it is not uncommon for poisoning of these so-called 'nuisance' birds to occur. Suunto, I was wondering if you still think that poisoning is not possible? I am not trying to be argumentative, just curious why you think this theory is unlikely?
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The Bug Whisperer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Monroe County, WV, USA
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That aside, I think that we should withhold judgment until results of necropsies are available.
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The Bug Whisperer
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Monroe County, WV, USA
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There was a lengthy posting on the ProMED listserve today on this subject, a few excerpts follow:
"Wildlife officials in both Arkansas and Louisiana sent carcasses to researchers at the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis. and the University of Georgia." (Results are not expected for another two or three weeks) "Mass bird deaths aren't uncommon. The U.S. Geological Service's website listed about 90 mass deaths of birds and other wildlife from June through Dec. 12. There were five deaths of at least 1,000 birds, with the largest near Houston, Minnesota, where parasite infestations killed about 4,000 water birds between Sept. 6 and Nov. 26." "In 1999, several thousand grackles fell from the sky and staggered about before dying in north Louisiana. It took five months to get the diagnosis: an E. coli infection of the air sacs in their skulls." (This was a new one for me.) Re: The Kentucky bird kill - "...tests performed on the birds ruled out diseases or poisons." The source for most of the ProMED report appears to have been an MSNBC article, see Plot thickens? Dead birds found in Sweden, Kentucky - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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Fireworks could be the cause.
News-Press - Fireworks likely cause of massive Ark. bird kill Quote:
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Grub
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Virginia
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Magnetic Pole Shift Causing Chaos & Death | World News Insight
Would anyone believe a magnetic pole shift?
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POM Judge & Official Non Gardener
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
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I hope they figure out the real reason soon~
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