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BREAKING: Hundreds more dead birds reported in Texas
The Examiner ^ | January 6, 2011 | Howard Portnoy

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 state—after Arkansas, Louisiana, and Kentucky—to experience mass bird deaths, which have now also been reported on another continent, Europe.


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KEYWORDS: aflockalypse; arkansas; birddeaths; birds; charliemuller; coots; deaths; easttexas; kentucky; kltv; louisiana; mudhens; texas; tyler
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To: tbw2

Yes, according to this NOAA kluck, the magnetic north pole is moving rapidly and the gulf stream has been broken.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhgpMgMr_dc


81 posted on 01/06/2011 9:14:43 PM PST by Domestic Church
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To: bareford101

I would love to see hundreds of dead pigeons, someplace else, not in my yard.


82 posted on 01/06/2011 9:23:39 PM PST by Ditter
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Who put that data together? I’ve heard about incidents in AR, LA, an KY but nothing else. What date ranges were included?

Add Illinois to the list, saw an article from Drudge yesterday saying lots of dead birds near Marion, Il.

83 posted on 01/06/2011 9:33:52 PM PST by blondee123 (Don't be a RINO, Vote the peoples wishes or you're gone!)
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To: Free Vulcan

More like the last 3 episodes of the second season of Millennium.


84 posted on 01/06/2011 9:34:08 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swzj-b49mo


85 posted on 01/06/2011 9:53:35 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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To: irishtenor

“Tyson’s report MILLIONS of dead chickens!

Big sale at Kentucky Fried Chicken on chicken dinners.


86 posted on 01/06/2011 11:35:37 PM PST by goat granny
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To: sbMKE

Alewives also die off in Lake Huron. Stink up the lake shore all summer when they do their dieoff’s...When I was a kid (decades ago) we had property on Huron just south of Port Hope. Had one nasty year of Alewives die off’s...


87 posted on 01/06/2011 11:43:21 PM PST by goat granny
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To: sbMKE

Alewives die off by the jillion in Lake Michigan.

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Oh no! What’s happening to these wenches who serve beer? ;)


88 posted on 01/07/2011 5:36:39 PM PST by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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To: blondee123; Ditter; RandallFlagg; BuckeyeTexan

I saw a google map of the incidents here and the hub seemed to be Atlanta.

This thread mentions blue beaks.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2653091/posts?page=34
Dead Birds: Thousands of turtle doves fall from sky in Italy

Did the airlines start using a new ‘water’ in the onboard johns that doesn’t freeze? It would explain the sudden deaths of crabs, fish and birds.


89 posted on 01/07/2011 5:42:31 PM PST by txhurl (This Is Not America.)
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To: DvdMom; decimon; Smokin' Joe; LucyT
H1N1?? *PING*
90 posted on 05/15/2011 4:08:01 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: deport
He said at dusk, they move from shallow to deeper water and have been getting hit by cars since they started migrating

I'm not sure if the editor or the writer should be flogged over this line. Maybe both.

91 posted on 05/15/2011 6:43:24 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2720018/posts

Thousands of dead Walleye Fish...Lake Erie


92 posted on 05/15/2011 6:45:32 AM PDT by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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