Posted on 01/06/2011 4:51:01 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A TV station in the East Texas town of Tyler reports that hundreds more dead birds have been discovered along the sides of a highway bridge. This news adds fresh fuel to a growing conundrum over the cause of hundreds of thousands of avian deaths in localities thousands of miles apart.
The station, KLTV, acknowledges that around 200 birds were found dead this morning on state highway 155. The birds, identified as American coots or mud-hens, are the first of this species to be cited in the recent spate of deaths. As with previous cases, the cause of death is not immediately apparent.
The Army Corps of Engineers office at Lake O' the Pines, the community where the birds were found, suggests that the birds may have been struck and killed by motor vehicles as the birds walked, roosted, or flew on and around the bridge. A spokesperson from that office claims to have witnessed similar phenomena on roadways and bridges in other parts of Texas and insists the incident is likely unrelated to the Arkansas situation.
Charlie Muller, a biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Administration, notes that bird deaths, while not uncommon, seldom occur in numbers this large. As to the likely cause of death, Muller speculates:
The birds could have been spooked by a boat coming through that area, [or by] a bird of prey such as a bald eagle.
These explanations, while reasonable, would do more to quell rampant concerns over the deaths if the occurrences were isolated. However, they are not. Texas now becomes the fourth stateafter Arkansas, Louisiana, and Kentuckyto experience mass bird deaths, which have now also been reported on another continent, Europe.
I came across this one yesterday too...
Italy - 1000s of dead turtle doves falling from the sky - http://www.chroniclewatch.com/2011/01/05/italy-turtle-doves-falling-from-the-sky/
Fireworks have indeed been blamed for some of these mass die-offs. Where’s the evidence that the fireworks are being set off? Are cities celebrating July 4th really late or something? I mean, you’d think there’d be some announcements regarding the fireworks so people would know to show up in order to appreciate the fireworks!
Shark attack hysteria was fall 2001. Bad omen.
Oh gawd no!!
The bridge was TOOOOOOOOOO far...
It even could have been a puddy cat.
Ya never know.
ObamaCare killed the old coots..........
Alewives die off by the jillion in Lake Michigan. Have since the middle of last century. No plot or conspiracy, just one of those things.
8 million pounds of dead fish in Lake Michigan mass die-off.
Something weird going on, or just a reason to full air time on the 24/7/356 news cycle?
oops 356=365(366 for leap years)......
If other animals start to die en masse, then I’ll worry.
We must have lost a lot more birds than I was aware of.
Someone up there playing Slim Whitman music?
Put them on a stick, dip em in batter and then the hot grease.
Perhaps the Hall of Souls is almost empty... The Guf.
Or a new form of avian flu?
Yeah, right, “no big deal”!!!
What they are not telling you is this is how the Zombie Apocalypse begins!!!! Run for the hills!!!
/sarcasm
Now, back to your regular programing. 8 )
Is it just me or is this stuff starting to get creepy?
I figure some nation is trying out some new stun-gun.
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