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More Bird Deaths...

Mysterious bird deaths hit Sweden

One eyewitness said he had seen hundreds of dead birds in the street
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• US bird deaths 'may be fireworks'

Dozens of dead birds have been found lying in a residential street in Sweden, days after thousands of birds fell to their deaths in the US.
Police in the town of Falkoeping have told Swedish media that between 50 and 100 jackdaws had died.
Some are said to have been hit by cars but others have no visible injuries.
Parallels have been drawn with the mysterious death of about 3,000 red-winged blackbirds in the US state of Arkansas on New Year's Eve.
Veterinary officials told Swedish radio that the case in Falkoeping was rare although they said there could be a number of reasons such as "disease or poisoning".

Aftonbladet newspaper quoted one resident, Drilon Hulaj, who said that as he drove home late on Tuesday night the street in front of him was dotted with "hundreds of dead birds".
Mr Hulaj said he had been immediately reminded of the events in the town of Beebe, Arkansas. Scientists have said the blackbirds there many have been affected by fireworks.
There have been no reports of fireworks or storms in Falkoeping at the time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12118839


kinda a follow up to the mass deaths few days ago.

red menace

Bit of a slow news day story
Don't get too worried anyway, the crisis will probably get canceled abruptly

Fighting Irish

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Hande hoche!

Does this mean life will be cancelled?

muff03

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Does this mean life will be cancelled?

ya beat me

Guill

Run for your lives!!!!!!

Coriolanus

What's flash forward and its probably just the yanks testing crap. Nk subsists on chicken and rice they're obviously planning on killing the chickens.

Quiet you

What does that mean? ^^

CrazyBiscuit

Quiet you wrote: »

What does that mean? ^^

Double rainbow?

danniemcq

its wikileaks or it will be in some papers

Saviola

Its swamp gas reflecting off venus

Mr Benevolent

It's probably nothing important, an upcoming supervolcano explosion or something.

Sanjuro

Flash Forward for wildlife? Would make for an incredibly boring show.

swarm.of.bees

Its avian non-flu!!

oppenheimer1

Guill wrote: »

Run for your lives!!!!!!

Don't you mean Run to da Hills?

squod

Its basically crop circles, only now they're killing birds to get on the news.

Voodu Child

God is obviously punishing them for disobeying his law of gravity.

'bout feckin time!:mad:

JONJO THE MISER

Its all warming up nicely for 2012.

red menace

If pigs in helmets and bits of scaffolding start falling from the sky as well I think I might know the cause

muff03

it's obviously some mass cult thing, shur everyone knows birds are cracked anyways

Colmo52

When I saw this story yesterday Flashforward is the the first thing i thought of also!!!!




Not long left to the end of the world though.

amacca

Sanjuro wrote: »

Flash Forward for wildlife? Would make for an incredibly boring show.

Depends on how well you could relate to a leading man that also happens to be a f#ckin chicken! with a horse for a wife and a five year old kangaroo daughter.

Riamfada

Its obviously just bird flu

Terry

It's not just birds.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/dead-birds-fall-from-sky-_n_804591.html?ref=fb&src=sp#sb=1179325,b=facebook

Millions of dead fish surfaced in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay in the U.S., Tuesday, while similar unexplained mass fish deaths occurred across the world in Brazil and New Zealand. On Wednesday, 50 birds were found dead on a street in Sweden. The news come after recents reports of mysterious massive bird and fish deaths days prior in Arkansas and Louisiana.

The Baltimore Sun reports that an estimated 2 million fish were found dead in the Chesapeake Bay, mostly adult spot with some juvenile croakers in the mix, as well. Maryland Department of the Environment spokesperson Dawn Stoltzfus says "cold-water stress" is believed to be the culprit. She told The Sun that similar large winter fish deaths were documented in 1976 and 1980.

ParanaOnline reports that 100 tons of sardines, croaker and catfish have washed up in Brazilian fishing towns since last Thursday. The cause of the deaths is unknown, with an imbalance in the environment, chemical pollution, or accidental release from a fishing boat all suggested by local officials.

In New Zealand, hundreds of dead snapper fish washed up on Coromandel Peninsula beaches, many found with their eyes missing, The New Zealand Herald reports. A Department of Conservation official allegedly claims the fish were starving due to weather conditions.

While all three events are likely unrelated, they come after recent reports of mysterious dead birds falling from the sky in both Arkansas and Louisiana. Thousands of dead birds were found in Beebe, Arkansas on New Year's Eve, and a few days later, around 500 of the same species were found 300 miles south in Louisiana. A Kentucky woman also reported finding dozens of dead birds scattered around her home. In the days prior to New Year's, nearly 100,000 fish surfaced in an Arkansas river 100 miles west of Beebe. Officials are now saying that fireworks likely caused the Arkansas bird deaths, and power lines may be to blame for the death of the birds in Louisiana.

Some remain skeptical of the explanations. Dan Cristol, a biology professor and co-founder of the Institute for Integrative Bird Behavior Studies at the College of William & Mary, told the AP that he was hesitant to believe fireworks were to blame unless "somebody blew something into the roost, literally blowing the birds into the sky."

Wednesday, officials in Sweden reported the finding of 50 dead birds on a street, suggesting that cold weather or fireworks were the likely culprit.
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Bird deaths and fish kills at smaller numbers aren't all that uncommon, though the size and proximity of some of the recent events have led people to allege their relation, though officials deny the frequency of these wildlife deaths as being anything other than coincidence.

In August of 2010, tens of thousands of dead fish were reported washing ashore in two separate occasions, 200 miles apart on the East Coast.

CLICK HERE to let us know what you think caused the mass bird deaths. While many of the animals are undergoing tests that could take weeks to yield comprehensive results, some officials attest that the true cause behind these mysterious deaths may never fully be known.

It's such a pity they cancelled that great show.
It would have thrived now.
Maybe the writers had a Flash Forward of their own. Dun dun dun.

af_thefragile

Here's a google map image showing where all many animals have suddenly and mysteriously died in the past few days.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201817256339889828327.0004991bca25af104a22b&ll=28.921631%2C5.273438&spn=141.542315%2C12.304687&z=2&iwloc=0004991c2e41cf55affcb

What do you think could be going on? Global warming/climate change? Industrial pollution? or something totally new?
Cuz hundreds and thousands of birds and fish dying all of a sudden is quite a mysterious and weird thing to happen...

Horse_box

I'd kill myself too if I had to go to mass

Yakult

Natural selection.....

AnonoBoy

Is it some manner of vegetarian promotional stunt gone wrong?

The lead-up to December 21st 2012, innit?

OpenYourEyes

Id imagine that the unusually bad weather over the last month, coupled with unique incidents that possibly wouldve happened anyway, and the fact that fireworks etc would have been used alot in some places for New years and disturbed alot of birds, would account for the majority of the stories.

The fact that its small populations of animals being affected, and not full communities or larger-scale populations would seem to indicate that theres nothing more suspicous behind it!


(this is just based on a quick look at that map and the animals affected)

smk89

Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside?

Cakes.

The penguins haven't died yet in New Zealand, they're just expected to. Poor Penguins

ScumLord

Apparently it's a big world wide coincidence. Scary.

af_thefragile

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

Id imagine that the unusually bad weather over the last month, coupled with unique incidents that possibly wouldve happened anyway, and the fact that fireworks etc would have been used alot in some places for New years and disturbed alot of birds, would account for the majority of the stories.

The fact that its small populations of animals being affected, and not full communities or larger-scale populations would seem to indicate that theres nothing more suspicous behind it!


(this is just based on a quick look at that map and the animals affected)

If you look at it, it has happened all across the globe. In the north where its winter, its understanable in places like UK, Sweden and cold parts of USA.

But how would you explain the southern hemisphere where its summer and the warmer places like Caribbean, Florida and all.

Also fireworks killing over 5000 birds in Arkansas?!

And its many different types of birds and fish being affected all around the globe. Like if its just birds, maybe some sorta avian flu might make sense. But what about the fish then? One place, industrial pollution might make sense, but its in all corners of the world!

Horse_box

The thing is, people probably find loads of dead fish/birds everyday and nothing would be made of it. Now since the Arkansas incident was so widely publicised, people are reporting everything and making it sound worse than it is?

That said, it does all seem a bit weird

ScumLord

af_thefragile wrote: »

If you look at it, it has happened all across the globe. In the north where its winter, its understanable in places like UK, Sweden and cold parts of USA.

But how would you explain the southern hemisphere where its summer and the warmer places like Caribbean, Florida and all.

Also fireworks killing over 5000 birds in Arkansas?!

And its many different types of birds and fish being affected all around the globe. Like if its just birds, maybe some sorta avian flu might make sense. But what about the fish then? One place, industrial pollution might make sense, but its in all corners of the world!

The fact the birds dies at night would play a big part in it, birds don't handle darkness to well.

I've often heard that if you block off the light on a caged bird it think it's night time and automatically goes to sleep. I myself have heard birds in trees beside lamp posts sing all night long thinking it's day time. I've often wondered if they tried to fly away from the lamp post would they just fall asleep mid air and now I have my scientific evidence that they would.

Jesus Wept

Dying at Mass of all places, what a way to go.

Senna

I heard millions of insects were killed last week when Christina Aguilera had a shower.

awesomeville

I'm not sure all the birds that died everywhere died at night did they? China is saying it is due to a change in the magnetic field.:eek:
Literally birds and fish dying all over the globe...it is Very strange!

Killer Pigeon

af_thefragile wrote: »

Here's a google map image showing where all many animals have suddenly and mysteriously died in the past few days.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201817256339889828327.0004991bca25af104a22b&ll=28.921631%2C5.273438&spn=141.542315%2C12.304687&z=2&iwloc=0004991c2e41cf55affcb

What do you think could be going on? Global warming/climate change? Industrial pollution? or something totally new?
Cuz hundreds and thousands of birds and fish dying all of a sudden is quite a mysterious and weird thing to happen...

Don't forget people, humans are animals too. We could also be effected.

WolfForager

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Don't forget people, humans are animals too. We could also be effected.

Or maybe there's a new species of bird doing the killings... A killer pigeon perhaps??
:pac:

Jesus Wept

tbh, some of those marks say 'scores of dead fish', I think that is clutching at straws, a few dozen dead fish turning up is hardly noteworthy?

af_thefragile

^They say hundreds and some say thousands. You don't know how accurate the news reports are and they could be exaggerating.

ScumLord wrote: »

The fact the birds dies at night would play a big part in it, birds don't handle darkness to well.

I've often heard that if you block off the light on a caged bird it think it's night time and automatically goes to sleep. I myself have heard birds in trees beside lamp posts sing all night long thinking it's day time. I've often wondered if they tried to fly away from the lamp post would they just fall asleep mid air and now I have my scientific evidence that they would.

Birds usually go to sleep at night. When the sky goes down. Although you could argue the city lights are disrupting their sleep cycles.

But it still doesn't make sense. They were fine all alone. Then why suddenly hundreds and thousands of birds fall out of the sky? I don't think there are many incidences in the past of such type. Especially not on such a global scale.

It could be the first signs of a global climate shift of some sorts. The birds and fishes can't handle the changing climate patterns anymore...

Could also maybe have something to do with magnetic pole shifts. Scientists have been saying that the magnetic poles of the earth are shifting. Birds (don't know about fishes) use the earths magnetic field to navigate (don't know about all birds but pigeons definitely do), the shift in the magnetic field could be causing these birds to become disorientated and fall off the sky...

I'm not a scientist so I really can't say much about this.

paulosham

Regarding the 5,000 birds, here's a quote from the CNN website.

Karen Rowe, an ornithologist for the game and fish commission, said the incident is not that unusual and is often caused by a lightning strike or high-altitude hail.
A strong storm system moved through the state earlier in the day Friday. Officials also speculated that fireworks shot by New Year's revelers in the area might have caused severe stress in the birds.

Blackbirds do not normally fly at night, and it was not immediately clear what caused the odd behavior. Loud noises were reported shortly before the birds began falling, according to the game and fish commission.

Killer Pigeon

awesomeville wrote: »

I'm not sure all the birds that died everywhere died at night did they? China is saying it is due to a change in the magnetic field.:eek:
Literally birds and fish dying all over the globe...it is Very strange!

Or maybe you're watching too many scary films ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foAyvN6mVwQ

af_thefragile

^Many birds use the earths magnetic field to navigate. Its like an internal compass they have. I think fishes use this too but I'm not sure about fishes.

Also the magnetic field of earth is caused by the motion of the molten iron core of the planet. Due to the motion of this core, the magnetic field is not the same in all places and the magnetic poles are also not stationary. They have moved in the past and they are moving all the time.

steddyeddy

very strange. could be the wheater or even the solar eclipse, some animals use the sun or moon as guides for migration

steddyeddy

af_thefragile wrote: »

^Many birds use the earths magnetic field to navigate. Its like an internal compass they have. I think fishes use this too but I'm not sure about fishes.

fish like salmon follow the magnetic pull of the moon.

fend

af_thefragile wrote: »

^Many birds use the earths magnetic field to navigate. Its like an internal compass they have. I think fishes use this too but I'm not sure about fishes.
.

*Fish... Plural is Fish

af_thefragile

fend wrote: »

*Fish... Plural is Fish

Hail mein fuhrer!


Its been a loooooong time since I studied any english so i've pretty much forgotten all of grammar and all. Or maybe its just a result of spending too much time on the internet!!

awesomeville

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Or maybe you're watching too many scary films ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foAyvN6mVwQ

Why cos China says its the magnetic field...um yehhhh okayyy, perfectly normal this bird dropping out of the sky thing:rolleyes: