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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God is playing ‘Angry Birds’?
>> “Most were dead,”
Interrogate the ones that are still alive. They know something. Waterboard them if need be.
SnakeDoc
“including for swine flu”
what a load of bullcrap.
I’m sorry, but does the sudden, unexplained death of birds and fish around the world in different, seemingly unrelated places give anyone a serious case of the screaming willies as it does me????
What’s doing it? Sudden releases of poisonous gas from the Earth? Cosmic radiation? Al Gore’s farts? WHAT is doing this????
This is getting curiouser and curiouser.
Totally bizarre.
You all know, don’t you, that at some point, this will all be attributed to ... global warming.
I think it has to do with the Magnetic Field, we are out of orbit...
I hear the birds Chirpping at 3:a.m outside my bedroom window...They are confused that’s for sure....
I was thinking ‘death panels’ myself.
*ping*
Colder than normal weather is causing this. Small animals have little to spare when it comes to heat preservation. Birds are particularly susceptible.
Bird Flew?
Are the poles swapping ends again?
THAT was being spewed on day one!
No lie.
FlashForward happening before our eyes.
2011 - the year of the Bird.
Since we don’t know, It must be the CIA experimenting with the Aurora aircraft & HAARP
/s
8 bucks says alexjones/davidicke have some very plausible theories right about now, that make all sorts of connections that makes a vague kind of sense in a creepy kind of way.
Aaaargh! LOL!
Just wait until the hail catches fire!
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