Posted on 01/04/2011 7:21:18 AM PST by PghBaldy
LABARRE — Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists drove over and around them.
State biologists are trying to determine what led to the deaths of the estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings on La. 1 just down the road from Pointe Coupee Central High School.
The discovery of the dead birds — some of which were lying face down, clumped in groups, while others were face up with their wings outstretched and rigid legs pointing upward — comes just three days after more than 3,000 blackbirds rained down from the sky in Beebe, Ark.
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I know a few Cajuns that will be eating good.
Note also the odd reporter’s name...
Starlings, good riddance. Red-wing blackbirds, many great memories of them while growing up.
This happened when the severe weather cells were passing through the area. They were very intense.
The updraft in a column could sweep up a flock of flying birds, pulling them up to extreme height and cold, where they were paralyzed or frozen, then dropped back to the ground after being expelled from the top of the column.
The MEDIA likes to ‘scare’ the public. It sells laundry detergent.
if hundreds of birds start dropping dead in my neighborhood
Im will be freaked out. They seem to be the same species as those dead in arkansas so maybe it’s some type of disease that blinds? them so they fly into things?
I’m sorry. I was referring to the first bird kill.
This is a second discovery. Interesting. Although it is likely still due to the same thing.
Either that or WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!
100,000 fish died in Arkansas, too. Very bizarre.
More Red wings...hmmm....
Migratory birds.
In winter they often congregate in agricultural areas.
In winter, grain is an important source of food, and many birds feed on corn stubble and at feedlots.
they may harbor histoplasmosis, a fungal lung infection that is contagious to humans.
Germany just shut down several thousand farms due to dioxin contamination.
They say their not poisoned, but hmmm...could it be a contaminate we wouldn’t normally check for?
Scavenger birds...on our farm areas at this time of year...
Reports are that their internal organs were mashed, like they had experienced blunt force trauma.
The real puzzle to me is why the birds were flying at night. Where I live the birds go to roost at sundown.
Lol!
I guess. Something like that!
An alternating electrical current can cause what appears to be blunt force trauma...yes?
Maybe someone is testing out a new home-made weapon?
Blunt force trauma, like when they hit the ground? I am tired of media scare stories, but that’s just me.
This was trauma by the reported lab results.
Not sire. But from what I heard last night, this seems more like an acoustic event. Like maybe a flock flying near a jet that was supersonic, and getting whomped real good by the compression wave...
Who knows? It’s interesting. But at least right now it doesn’t look like some kind of poison or disease.
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