Posted on 01/07/2011 8:29:28 AM PST by mnehring
Birds Falling From the Sky Not Unusual The only unusual part of the recent spate of bird (and fish) die-offs is that people witnessed them.
Thousands of birds and fish have died in large groups over the last week.
Scientists say events like these are normal in the wild and are usually caused by weather or disease.
Most mass animal deaths occur far from human eyes, but that might change with development.
It has been a bad week for wild animals.
Starting just before the turn of the New Year, 500 red-wing blackbirds died together in Louisiana. Some 100 jackdaws turned up dead on a street in Sweden. And in Arkansas, an estimated 100,000 fish went belly-up the day before 5,000 blackbirds slammed into roofs, mailboxes and the ground at full speed.
Such massive, dramatic and high profile events have fueled concerns that nature is coming to an end, or at least that something weird and disturbing is going on in the animal kingdom.
But, experts say, massive die-offs like these are not at all unusual.
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Wouldn’t you find 5,000 birds falling at the same time out of the sky unusual?
Smithsonian bird curator says its no big deal. (Just about any observant rural dweller has seen this sort of thing)
Kinda like the summer of the shark - shark attacks were publicized, everyone thought they were on the rise, but the actual numbers were slightly below the norm.
I’m baffled as to why folks are surprised at dead birds falling from the sky.
Dead birds can’t fly worth a darn, everybody knows that.
Every time a birdie dies, Alex Jones gets his wings.
LOL..
If I didn't know it was a normal event, yea. But someone who has never lived near a lake waking up one morning and finding their home covered in Mayflies may find that unusual and would generate conspiracies about it.. not knowing it happens every year at almost the exact same time..
Kind of like sailcats.. they fly great. (if you don't know what a sailcat is, don't ask).
They're not dead, they're pinin' for the fjords.
April bughatch at my house. (Which brings a plague of frogs.)
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At 56... the only multi thousand, multi state dead bird drop that I have ever heard of, resides in the Bible.
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Yeah, so he can fly around in Nutland.
I heard him on Coast to Coast the night of the event. Alex must be the go-to-guy when George sees dead things. Man...wackier by the minute.
That is the point of the article. The only difference now is that people are seeing them and the media is reporting them.. but they do happen on a regular basis.
This is nothing more than Pelosi having another temper tantrum.
Impressive. Must be good fly fishing around there.
The media just loves whipping people into a frenzy.
Pickin up the slack for Art Bell.
At least Art Bell didn’t take himself so seriously.
Even self described conspiracy theorist Rolleye James is laughing about the blunt force trauma being caused by impact with the ground.
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