animals and birds dying, cause?

[bℓσωηG]

Mystery over mass antelope deaths in Kazakhstan

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10179345

and birds...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44tm4FFh4lc

Edited January 4, 2011 by blowng

[bℓσωηG]

scores of starlings fall out of the sky and lie dying... in a SINGLE front garden

http://www.dailymail...gle-garden.html

Edited January 4, 2011 by blowng

[Magicdirt]

HAARP

Chemtrails ?

[ThunderIdeal]

my money is on some kind of bait/poison, intentionally used but perhaps unintentional consequences, wouldn't be the first time loads of birds dropped dead.

[random]

if its just bait/poison how come all of sudden birds are dropping dead now in sweden? And of course the govt trying to tell us 'oh its nothing to worry about' their same bullshit stories

[mescalito]

We're Dooomed!

Like WTF is going on!?

Some may find solace in Monatgue Keene's channeling...the last few entry's are interesting indeed.

http://www.montaguekeen.com/articles/montague/dec19-2010.htm

http://www.montaguekeen.com/articles/montague/jan3-2011.htm

We'll be right.....but smoke'm if ya got 'em

Edited January 6, 2011 by mescalito

[random]

if we're doomed then im gonna live like there's no tomorrow! ;) some weird shit going on anyway.

[bℓσωηG]

if its just bait/poison how come all of sudden birds are dropping dead now in sweden? And of course the govt trying to tell us 'oh its nothing to worry about' their same bullshit stories

The ones that dropped dead in the US they reported to have been scared to death by fireworks or similar, wtf , i doubt it... the official stories are crap, maybe they are testing their death rays on the birds before aiming them at cities...

Edited January 6, 2011 by blowng

[Auxin]

2,000,000+ fish just flopped over dead in the US [1] They are trying to say millions of oceanic fish died overnight due to cold weather.

Next will it be 200 beached whales that 'died of heart attacks due to poor eating habits'?

[Legba]

Source

Is it an animal apocalypse? Here are the facts and theories about recent mass die-offs

THE recent spate of mass animal deaths around the world is sparking conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions on the web.

From the US to New Zealand, from Britain to Brazil, bizarre cases of birds, fish and crabs turning up dead en masse have been reported in the past two weeks and no one seems to know why.

Not that it’s stopping residents of the internet from having a red hot go.

One example is from conspiracy theorists Joseph Watson and Alex Jones of prisonplanet.com who blame it on "the government". According to the site authorities have “routinely engaged in secret testing of biological and electromagnetic weapons that have detrimentally impacted both humans and animals many times in the past.”

Others are blaming it on the New Madrid fault line in the southern US, although how this affects birds flying in the sky, we’re not too sure.

And let’s not even get started on the 2012 end of the world predictions.

Here at news.com.au we’ve sifted through the evidence and present some saner possible explanations so you can decide for yourself if this is the end of days, or just a freaky and gruesome coincidence.

Where: a 30km stretch of the Arkansas River near Ozark, about 200km northwest of Little Rock in the US.

What: 100,000 drum fish washed up along a 32km stretch between the Ozark dam and a bridge in Franklin County. Local authorities were alerted to the deaths last week and have since collected samples from the affected area.

How: Keith Stephens from the US Game and Fish Commission said fish kills happen every year, but the size of the latest one was unusual. He suggested some sort of disease was to blame.

"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," he told CNN.

"If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish."

Where: Beebe, a community of 5000, northeast of Little Rock.

What: New Year's revellers in a small town noticed something other than fireworks falling from the sky as up to 5000 red-winged blackbirds rained out of the darkness onto rooftops and footpaths and into fields.

One struck a woman walking her dog. Another hit a police cruiser.

Birds were "littering the streets, the yards, the driveways, everywhere," said Robby King, a county wildlife officer.

"It was hard to drive down the street in some places without running over them."

How: "They died from massive trauma," said Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens, citing a report from the state poultry lab where the birds were examined.

Some speculated that a bout of bad weather was to blame. Others said one confused bird could have led the group in a fatal plunge. A few spooked schoolkids even guessed that the birds had committed mass suicide.

Beebe police captain Eddie Cullum said "For all the doomsdayers, that was definitely the end of the world."

Where: The second unexplained US mass bird death happened in Louisiana where carcasses littered a stretch of highway near Baton Rouge.

What: 500 birds were discovered dead in Pointe Coupee Parish.

How: Olivia Watkins of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said: ”We sent samples to a lab in Missouri and are waiting to get some results.”

The birds - a mixed flock of red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and starlings - may have hit a power line or vehicles in the dark, Louisiana's state wildlife veterinarian Jim LaCour said. Two dozen of them had head, neck, beak or back injuries.

Dan Cristol, a biology professor and co-founder of the Institute for Integrative Bird Behavior Studies at the College of William & Mary, said the Louisiana birds may have been ill or startled from their roost.

“They don't hit a power line for no reason,” he said.

Where: A snow-covered street in southern Sweden’s Falkoping,

What: About 100 jackdaw birds were found lying dead on the road, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported.

How: Local veterinarian Robert ter Horst speculated that the birds had fallen from the sky after being frightened by fireworks set off late on Tuesday.

However, the cause of the jackdaws' deaths was disputed after a truck driver claimed he was responsible.

Christer Olofosson, a rescue services worker, said the truck driver claimed he saw about 70 live birds on the road on Tuesday, saying he ran over the lot of them and did not think it was a “big deal”. He later realised it had attracted attention, not only in the Swedish media, but also abroad.

Police told the newspaper the majority of the jackdaws involved were not "physically damaged," which would contradict the truck driver's account of events. Mystery.

Where: Kentucky, US

What: Kentucky wildlife officials say several hundred birds were found dead in the western part of the state. The grackles, red wing blackbirds, robins and starlings were found last week.

How: No reason has been discovered or given yet.

Where: Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand

What: A "carpet" of hundreds of dead, mostly eyeless, snapper washed up on several Coromandel Peninsula beaches on Tuesday, leaving people mystified.

Auckland resident James Hughes spotted the snapper floating close to shore after children rushed up to him and his friends holding some of the dead fish, the New Zealand Herald reported.

"We spoke to boaties coming in and they said there was a carpet of them floating in the water."

How: A Department of Conservation official told Mr Hughes fish in the Coromandel area were starving because of weather conditions.

"That's just completely untrue. This was something deliberate and it's just wrong," Mr Hughes said

Where: Thanet, Kent, England

What: 40,000 dead velvet swimming crabs, or “devil crabs” washed up on Thanet beaches. Tony Childs, Thanet Coast Project Manager, told the Daily Mail: “We had a crash in numbers last year and we hadn't expected such a large population.

“As happens with the circle of life in nature, we expect the crabs to be naturally dispersed from our shores very quickly by our local seagulls.”

How: The cold weather in Britain has been blamed for the deaths. "We are hopeful the crab population will soon recover," said Mr Childs.

The Daily Mail reported that the mass crab deaths made up 95 per cent of marine life affected by the cold snap.

Where: Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, US

What: The Baltimore Sun reported an estimated two million spot fish died and washed up on the shore. The dead fish are mostly adult spot, with some juvenile croakers.

How: State officials are investigating but suspect it was because of the near-record cold. Agency spokeswoman Dawn Stoltzfus said spot are susceptible to colder water, she said, and normally leave the upper bay by now. They were perhaps late getting out.

Where: Coast of Paranaguá, Brazil

What: At least 100 tonnes of sardine, croaker and catfish have washed up on beaches over the past week, Parana Online reported.

The President of the Federation of Fishermen's Colony of Parana, Edmir Manoel Ferreira, said at least 2800 fishermen depend on the daily seafood.

"We are experiencing a very sad situation on the coast," he said.

How: Authorities took samples to verify the reason for the deaths.

Biologists have explained the deaths could be because of a possible increase in the concentration of algae that produce toxins. This increase may lead to death in some species, such as sardines.

Water samples taken from the bay showed elevated levels of two species of toxic algae.

Where: Port Orange, Florida US

What: Hundreds of dead fish floated around the waterways near homes, WFTV reported, surrounded by swarms of pelicans and buzzards.

Kayakers on the creek told WFTV they'd seen fish around every bend and it appeared to be one of the most extensive kills they had seen.

How: ?

It's a worry.

[random]

Scary and very strange. Quick lets all have as much sex and drugs as we can before the world ends!! p.s thanks for that link legba, even if it did worry the crap outta me.

[bℓσωηG]

Quick lets all have as much sex and drugs as we can before the world ends!!

PM'd

[Rabelais]

My guess - the internet.

Things like this have probably been happening forever, but the more interconnected nature of media means that these things are becoming more noticeable...combined with 2012 doomsday predictions.

[random]

Alas that theory doesn't explain why these things are happening at the moment, thats the real question.... Why are these things happening and more importantly, what caused this? Well at least that's what i'd like to know.

[WoodDragon]

Dang, blowng beat me to dibs!

On the matter of mass deaths such as this, it's usually causes such as unusual trauma that underly the phenomena. Not the "they all flew into a powerline" sort of trauma though - that's a bit 'weather-balloony' for it to be anywhere near likely. Pollution pulses could do it, as could weapons-testing or similar energetic events - many whale strandings have been tied to submarine sonar usage, for example.

Disease might be a cause, but really this would only occur over more extended time periods than an hour or so, as some of these events seem to be demonstrating. Perhaps the marine examples are disease or temperature fluctuations, although the latter possibly wouldn't occur within as tight window as the reports seem to indicate. The toxic algae cause is definitely plausible though, and is well documented in other cases.

One thing is likely though - many of the speculated reasons in the media are probably nowhere near the truth, no matter how prosaic or otherwise the truth actually is. Journalists are notoriously inept in being able to discern real causes in such cases, and go with stuff that either makes for good headlines, or doesn't threaten the hands that feed them. Or both!

[random]

ah, the pleasure of sarcasm. But otherwise i like your response wooddragon. Quite balanced. p.s nobody pm'd me, so i'm still up for a mass orgy of sex and drugs should we all discover the world is about to end. My number is 555 ....

[Rabelais]

You can do the sex and drugs any time really.

I'm going out like that dude in Heathers. Go to the zoo, steal a lion, then to an army barracks to steal a grenade. Me and the lion will then row out to the middle of the lake and pull the pin...so like, we die as one.

[random]

wtf another giggle. Funny and stupid all at the same time!

[WoodDragon]

Yeah, Meeka, I've called that number a few times.

I kept getting asked for a credit card number though... maybe I didn't dial correctly?

[random]

ever the flatterer, wood dragon.

[WoodDragon]

Oops, I just realised that it didn't really come out very well!

[J Smith]

I don't know how accurate this is...

[bℓσωηG]

certainly seems worldwide, or they want us to think it is?

Birds Dying In Italy:Thousands Of Turtle Doves Fall Dead From Sky

 

On Wednesday, GeaPress reported hundreds -- possibly thousands -- of dead and dying birds in Italy. Countless turtle doves were found scattered in the streets, in flower beds and hanging tragically from trees "like Christmas balls" in the town of Faenza. Many of the birds that fell dead from the sky were discovered with a mysterious blue stain in their beaks.

In the past week, similar incidents of mass animal deaths have been reported across the world. Thousands of dead birds fell from the sky in Arkansas on New Year's Eve, and similar incidents were reported on different days in Louisiana, Kentucky and Sweden. Two million fish were discovered dead in Maryland, with other fish kills also reported in Brazil, New Zealand and Arkansas -- approximately 100 miles from the bird incident. 40,000 crabs washed up on England beaches in the past few days, as well.

While the events are likely unrelated, most still remain a mystery. Officials suggest fireworks are likely responsible for many of the bird deaths and that unusually cold weather could be to blame for the strange mass deaths of fish and crabs.

GeaPress suggests that the blue stains found in mouths of the dead and dying birds in Italy could be the result of poisoning or possibly signs of hypoxia. Both the local forest service and the WWF in Faenza have sent some of the dead birds for testing, though the results likely won't be available for at least a week.

Visit GeaPress.org to see the shocking photos of the dead turtle doves.

http://www.huffingto...u_n_805541.html

Edited January 9, 2011 by blowng

[bℓσωηG]

It's the Aflockalypse: More mass animal deaths see thousands of fish found floating in Florida and 200 birds dead on Texas bridge

 

• Thousands of fish found floating in Florida after cold snap
• 200 birds found dead on highway bridge in Texas
• 50 dead jackdaws found on city street in Sweden
• 100 tons of sardines, croaker and catfish wash up dead on Brazilian coast
• Hundreds of fish dead in New Zealand
• And in Britain, 40,000 devil crabs join list of casualties

 

http://www.dailymail...bs-England.html

Edited January 9, 2011 by blowng

[psilosophical]

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201817256339889828327.0004991bca25af104a22b