Posted on 01/05/2011 10:39:40 AM PST by TaraP
STOCKHOLM (AFP) – In a week that saw unexplained massive bird deaths in the southern United States, up to 100 birds were found lying in a snow-covered street in Sweden Wednesday, officials said.
"Most were dead," Christer Olofsson of rescue services in the southwestern town of Falkoeping said of the 50 to 100 jackdaw birds, a type of crow.
Ornithologist Anders Wirdheim said the find was surprising.
"This is unusual," he told tabloid Aftonbladet, which posted online a reader's photo of dozens of black birds littering a snow-covered road.
"They are probably jackdaws. They spend the winter in large flocks. If they are exposed to disturbances, they can become so stressed that they fly themselves to death," he said.
Olofsson told AFP the birds were first spotted around midnight by a police patrol, and that five had been taken in for analysis.
Olov Andersson of the National Veterinary Institute told news agency TT the carcasses would be analysed and that bacterial and viral tests, including for swine flu, would be performed.
The Falkoeping incident comes after two unexplained mass bird deaths in the United States.
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The public at large. Not Freepers or those with experience before 1990.
That is SO wrong -— funny, but SO WRONG! lol
1/5/11 - Italy - 1000s of dead turtle doves falling from the sky - http://www.chroniclewatch.com/2011/01/05/italy-turtle-doves-falling-from-the-sky/
1/5/11 - Tennessee - (Lebanon) 100 dead blackbirds - http://www.wsmv.com/news/26379609/detail.html
Thanks for the post....Now they are finding massive dead crabs on the coast in the UK!
This is a prelude to the 2012 elections.
There is a constant drumbeat of the end of the world by at least 10 causes, from Mayan calenders to galactic alignments. Movies, articles, and a whole raft of media outlets.
Now this, similar to the Shark Attack Summer.
These “nature anomalies” will be publicized until we get tired of them or the people pushing it think it’s been effective enough.
Then it will be something else- melting ice, growing ice, who knows.
This will keep up, Alinsky-style, until a large number of us are concerned or even panicked. THEN we’ll see that only Obama (or whoever the progressive candidate is) can solve this pending calamity.
Sort of like Clinton, Y2K, and The Bridge to the 21st Century but on an epic scale.
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