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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Hosea 4
Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites, because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Because of this the land dries up, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea are swept away ...”
Zephaniah 1:3
“I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble when I cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
Revelation 19:17
And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God” ...
Revelation 19:21
But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh ...
You had the internet? How many websites did you visit? How much news did you get from it?
AOL started internet service for DOS computers in 1991. What internet service did you have in 1990?
Internet Explorer started in 1995. What browser did you use in 1990?
Fox News started in 1996. CNN was the only 24 hour news channel at the time. So how many stories of bird deaths in Sweden do you think they would show in a day?
News is everywhere today. Compared to today, we were living in the Stone Age in 1990.
“Paleomagnetics finds stripes of opposing magnetic polarity in seafloor spreading regions”
No, they actually don’t.
Obama is covering up another spill, or something worse.
Obama is covering up another spill, or something worse.
Good guess. Could be that this is a pre-cursor to the predicted 180 degree shift of the magnetic poles of Earth's magnetic field. Something wicked this way comes.
Yes, the media is having fun reporting these stories, they’ll grow bored shortly and you won’t hear about these incidents anymore.
This may be the wildest thing I’ve ever seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruHQhNe-UM&feature=related
You need to give more than a blanket denial on the magnetic striping.
Must be a computer virus affecting birds and fish and coloring streams.
Well...many people were emailing in the 1980s, so there was net communication certainly by that time. When was the term, “Internet,” coined? I don’t know. I think I used CompuServe as my provider. I didn’t receive a lot of news via that, but it was possible.
Although FOX news is generally more informative and less biased, IMO, than the rest, there were TV and radio stations before the 1990s. We’ve been involved in world wars and all kinds of international activity for quite a long time - so people have kept up with current events. Massive bird killings? Maybe they wouldn’t have received so much attention, but, on the other hand, maybe they would have.
100 deaths is not massive. The Beebe, Ark case ended up being thousands of birds.
I’ve beed connected to the internet since 1985. I
used Phil Karn Net/NOS TCP/IP for DOS and a
1200 baud modem to a port at UCSD. By 1986, I
had real connectivity at PacBell. It was simple mail,
netnews, ftp and a few simple search engines via
telnet. Good enough to do my job and cooperatively
network over 100 machines with TCP/IP between
Hayward and San Diego. The “browser” didn’t
arrive on the scene until 1993.
LOL
... think of this...40 years... the evolution in communications manifest in satellite communication prompted an end to the Vietnam War. Perhaps 1970? Its when the images came on on American TV in 1970,1,2,3 that the real attitudinal changes came through awareness.
Eventually, someone will theorize that....”It’s Bush’s fault.”
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