Sudden massive bird deaths

[JAVO]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/03/arkansas.falling.birds/index.html?hpt=C1

Up to 5,000 birds fell from the sky New Year's Eve in Beebe, Arkansas

500 birds found dead in southern Louisiana in seemingly separate incident

I've never heard of something like this happening before. I can see how fireworks, a storm, or aircraft might kill a few hundred birds at one time, but 5,000?

And, why were thousands of birds of the same two types all in the exact same area at once?

 

[Aquarelle]

Now it happened with fish, too. Creepy!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads

And from the above article, about the birds:

UPDATE: A state veterinarian tells NBC that preliminary necropsy results from several birds show that they died of "multiple blunt trauma to their vital organs," though what caused the trauma remains uncertain. According to Dr. George Badley, their stomachs were empty, so they weren't poisoned, and they died in midair, not upon impact with the ground.

Reminds me of the TV show "The Event" (which, sadly, was canceled after its first season).

 

[Spamtar]

God's wrath is coming.

"No more water, next time fire."

 

[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.

2. Since this happened shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, maybe some base personnel were bored with the usual fireworks, and decided to ring in the new year with a boom from the new toy, a classified, focused concussion weapon. The birds were just unexpected collateral damage.

 

[Stanton Moore]

I read that it was caused by loud noise on new year's eve.

Bullshit.

 

[rav3n]

Massed birds in those numbers, usually have something to do with migration paths or destinations.

The fireworks theory makes a lot of sense since the birds they examined had definitive physical trauma. Everything substantial that humans do have impact on their environment. This is similar to the impact of military sonar on whales and mammalian dolphins.

 

[Beorn]

I'm guessing we will all forget about this in a week.

 

[JocktheMotie]

SADS

[Sudden Avian Death Syndrome?]

 

[Chaotic Harmony]

So..... If it's the fireworks.... Is that what happened in Louisiana?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/04/birds-fall-from-sky-louisiana_n_804196.html

 

[Beorn]

God's wrath is coming.

"No more water, next time fire."

[YOUTUBE="XgaYaygc9I8"]it's the apocalypse[/YOUTUBE]

 

[entropie]

I just read in the news it could be hail or a thunderstorm aswell that hit a cluster of birds in mid-air.

Such things are always creepy, thanks to Hitchcock, who ruined it with birds for me for a lifetime -.-

 

[sleepy]

It's raining birds in Sweden as well.

http://translate.google.no/translat.../nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10028890

 

[Amethyst]

My theories:

1. Aliens were probably hovering over the southern United States with their giant aircraft which for whatever reason attracts birds, and with their cloaking device the birds flew right into it, and suffered blunt trauma from doing so. Same with the alien submarines and the fish.

2. Yet another sign from God that the end is near, and the media is making a cover story, because the big boys in government know it's coming, but know how much limited resources there might be in the post-apocalypse, so would rather have the majority of the population live in dis-belief. If this is true, then I might be hunted down and shot and killed so that the word doesn't spread, but it proves that they certainly are hiding something.

3. The fumes from the fireworks may have build up in a certain area, even possibly from theme parks and stuff, or a strange wind current, and they breathed, and died.

4. Unearthly radioactive elements from the aliens' ship caused such internal trauma in a certain species of bird in a large radius.

DISCLAIMER: None of these theories should be taken seriously.

PS: Why was this story posed 5 days after the event? Seems fishy.

 

[Eckhart]

Hm, I expected that to happen not before 2012, but maybe it will drag on

Well, I am not convinced by the fireworks theories and the others. I mean, wouldn't such things to some degree then not happen more often? I cannot recall having heard such a story in the last years to New Years Eve. And the links here indicate it is happening now in other areas too? That is really scary.

 

[entropie]

I rember that movie where the ferrite core of the Earth stopped turning and Earth's electromagnetic field collapsed. It all started with birds falling from the skies

I tell you, the end is near !!!

 

[erm]

My bad guys.

I accidently a lot of birds.

 

[NPcomplete]

Maybe it's like what happened with bees when they were disappearing in Doctor Who? Incidentally, I read this a few months ago: http://www.news.utoronto.ca/lead-stories/commercial-bees-spreading-disease-to-wild-pollinating-bees-says-u-of-t-stud.html

Maybe there's a new avian disease?

 

[figsfiggyfigs]

Oh noes. Flashforward!!!!

 

[Vasilisa]

Any parrots among the dead?

But seriously, avian disease is the first thing that I thought of, too. Thanks for posting this story, JAVO. Hopefully if there are any updates or new angles someone will share.

 

[Chaotic Harmony]

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