Posted on 01/04/2011 1:22:05 PM PST by Pinkbell
This is getting weird.
Four days after an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe, Ark., about 500 more dead birds were found lying lifeless on a quarter-mile-long stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish in Louisiana.
The birds, red-winged blackbirds and starlings, were discovered on Monday, Baton Rouge's The Advocate reported. Biologists will send some of the birds to labs in Georgia and Wisconsin to conduct necropsies and tests to determine the cause of death.
After examining the birds found in Arkansas, state officials concluded that they had died as a result of blunt trauma, possibly caused by flying into buildings after being startled by New Year's fireworks.
A day before the Arkansas bird deaths were reported, 100,000 drum fish were found dead in a massive fishkill in the Arkansas River. That die-off is still being investigated but was likely caused by a combination of factors including a population boom over the summer, a deadly pathogen and a harsh winter cold snap.
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So, to clarify, we have:
First Birds Fall, Now 100,000 Fish Dead in Arkansas
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/03/first-birds-fall-now-100-000-fish-dead-in-arkansas/?icid=main%7Chp-desktop%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk1%7C193294
Woman reports dozens of dead birds in her yard (Kentucky)
http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/Woman-reports-dozens-of-dead-birds-in-her-yard-112830524.html
Tons Of Dead Fish Wash Ashore In Brazil
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parana-online.com.br%2Feditoria%2Fcidades%2Fnews%2F502434%2F%3Fnoticia%3DMORTANDADE%2BMISTERIOSA%2BDE%2BPEIXES%2BNO%2BLITORAL&act=url
Someone said that the Fireworks might have done it.
Ummmm, unless I’m sadly mistaken - Blackbirds do not fly at night. They like to see where they are flying. We don’t launch a whole lot of Fireworks until night falls and it is pretty dark out there.
In other News: McDonald’s is running a special on the McFish and the Chicken McNuggets. lol
*a harsh winter cold snap*
Time for the AGW droolers to blame this on man-made global warming.
HORSE SHIT.
Just imagine, FRiends. These are the same people you and I depend on in times of emergencies, disasters, terrorist actions to protect us and our loved ones.
So why doesn't this happen every New Year.
Apparently they all flew into buildings in Arkansas, Kentucky, and Louisiana. Coincidence I guess?
Mustabeen the windex.
Obviously, all of it is Bush’s Fault
Maybe a newly discovered species of “Dorkbird”
What if they’re migrating? Up here in the mitten, some of our best chances at seeing migrating birds (both coming and going) are early evening, as they set out, and mid-morning, as they’re looking for a place to roost for the day. I know Red-wing Blackbirds are migratory—I sure do miss them this time of year.
I’m still waiting on the truth about the missile fired off the coast of california. Still waiting,,,,,,,,
I did not know that the little town in Arkansas was nothing but wall-to-wall skycrapers.
Actually the “trauma” was caused by a delayed reaction to the airplane that took off from the Pacific Ocean a couple months back.
We know, for certain that it is NOT the fireworks. . .
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