Sudden massive bird deaths

[amazingdatagirl]

slow news day

 

[rav3n]

One article I was reading seemed to want to blame it on the extreme cold temperatures.... :rolli:

Sure, it makes rational sense that masses of birds show evidence of physical trauma from being cold. [/sarcasm]

 

[Epiphany]

Birds, fish, and now...crabs.

40,000 crabs join slew of animal death mysteries

 

[figsfiggyfigs]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_WI0VI7aIw"]AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Epiphany]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7As_q6PSKSM"]Magnolia - Frogstorm[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Aquarelle]

Oh noes. Flashforward!!!!

THAT'S the show I meant... not the Event... silly me. Yes, it's exactly what happened in Flash Forward!! Watch out, pretty soon there's going to be a mass (human) blackout where we're all going to have visions of our futures...

 

[NPcomplete]

If the end of the world is nigh, at least I will not have to worry about the future.

 

[Epiphany]

Timeline of Events

December 2010: thousands of dead crabs washed up along Kent coast

30 December: up to 100,000 dead drum fish over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River, 200km northwest of Little Rock discovered

31 December 2010: 3,000 of red-winged blackbirds rained from sky in Arkansas town of Bebe.

3 January 2011: 500 dead and dying red-winged-blackbirds fell into Louisiana highway in Pointe Coupee Parish

3 January: 40,000 dead ‘devil crabs’ washed up on Thanet beaches in Kent

4 January 2011: 100 jackdaw birds found lying dead on the road in Falkoping, Southeastern Sweden.

4 January: hundreds of dead eyeless snapper washed up on numerous Coromandel Peninsula beaches

5 January: several hundred birds found dead in Western Kentucky

5 January: 200 birds found dead on highway bridge in Texas

 

[JAVO]

Google map tracking mass animal deaths:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...l=25.165173,22.5&spn=154.641673,319.21875&z=1


Some of these are rather unusual, but let's not forget that more wild animals tend to die in the winter.

 

[rav3n]

Wonder if there's any way they can through autopsy, confirm actual time of death of wildlife. That timeline would be based on when found, which would be later or much later.

But masses of ocean dwelling animal deaths aren't unusual since temperature affects them harshly. That is, unless they're showing physical trauma like the birds in Arkansas and nowhere in any of the stories was there any reference to this.

 

[figsfiggyfigs]

THAT'S the show I meant... not the Event... silly me. Yes, it's exactly what happened in Flash Forward!! Watch out, pretty soon there's going to be a mass (human) blackout where we're all going to have visions of our futures...

*starts wrapping self up in bubble wrap*

Shouldn't take long, I'm such a klutz, I'm 50% covered with that stuff anyways.

 

[JAVO]

Nearby the town of Beebe, Arkansas is the Little Rock Air Force Base, which is the home of the 29th Weapons Squadron.

A few possibilities:

1. Enormous flock of birds flies toward base and shows up on radar as a possible unidentified, potential stealth, aircraft. Base or interceptor aircraft fires classified concussion weapon rather than surface to air missiles to avoid collateral civilian damage and attracting attention due to mid-air explosion.

...and right around the time the Chinese start taxiing new stealth fighters down the runway.

 

[Ivy]

I am unsatisfied with the level of skepticism in this thread.

Bird expert: Don't worry too much about the Deadbirdpocalypse

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

I am unsatisfied with the level of skepticism in this thread.

Bird expert: Don't worry too much about the Deadbirdpocalypse

Way to ruin everyone's fun, Ivy!

My personal theory is that everyone had finally heard.

[YOUTUBE=2WNrx2jq184]Have you heard?[/YOUTUBE]

 

[NPcomplete]

As long as Andrew Bird keeps making good music, does it matter? Hell, he even whistles. However, there could be a future infestation of worms and other creatures that birds find edible and adore.

 

[A window to the soul]

Look at the unrelated bright side, at least the naked mole rats are okay.

 

[Thalassa]

Look at the unrelated bright side, at least the naked mole rats are okay.

Do they look anything like naked cats?

 

[A window to the soul]

Do they look anything like naked cats?

They do!

 

[Shimmy]

I think it's a typical of mass hysteria. I don't know how much birds there used to fall out of the sky, so maybe thousands a day isn't actually that many.

 

[Malice]

Mass hysteria? Did you look at the map?

I refuse to see how so many people can just laugh something like this off. Does it mean the end of the world is nigh? Probably not. But it's certainly not a good thing and I feel it should be taken seriously.