Whats the deal with thebirds?

[joeyp1222]

wow england has 40K crabs washed up ashore, lobsters and fish better get ready folks, i think we better start partying like there is no tomorrow and really enjoy life now

[arkie boy]

Hobos right aliens

[t-bone]

i can't believe i read all this

[19th Hole]

Madison lab solves mystery of Arkansas bird die-off

Blunt-force trauma from flying into homes, cars cited as cause

By Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel
Jan. 6, 2011 |(162) Comments
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Dead birds lie on the ground after being thrown off the roof of a home by a worker in Beebe, Ark., on Sunday.



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The mystery of the deaths of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas this month has been solved.
They died of blunt-force trauma, according to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison. Samples of the blackbirds - and other blackbirds from a separate mass die-off about the same time in Louisiana - were brought to the little-known laboratory on Madison's west side for necropsies.
"They died of impact force to their bodies," said Scott Wright, chief of disease investigations at the center.
He said the birds clearly showed signs of bruises.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said tests for evidence of pesticide poisoning were negative.
At least 3,000 red-winged blackbirds died on New Year's Eve near Beebe, Ark. Fireworks probably sent them flying from their roost sites.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said the agency began receiving reports of blackbirds falling from the sky about 11:30 p.m. Dec. 31 in a 1-square-mile area of Beebe.
The mass kill spawned speculation that their demise was caused by a chemical pollutant - a fear heightened by the arrival in Beebe of workers combing neighborhoods in hazmat suits. As the story spread, other theories ranged from biblical apocalypse to proof of the presence of UFOs.
"It's believed that the noise startled them - they are poor night fliers - and they were in close proximity to neighborhoods, and they flew into homes and cars (and other objects)," Wright said.
A separate incident near Baton Rouge, La., involving about 450 blackbirds is still under investigation by the center, Wright said.
"I think the two events are a coincidence," Wright said.
Also unrelated, he said, is the death of more than 80,000 freshwater drum, and a few yellow bass, white bass and sauger in the Arkansas River reported on Jan. 3.
Deaths not uncommon

Wright said large-scale deaths of birds and other species are not uncommon.
Storms, for instances, wreak havoc on bird populations. Birds are also vulnerable to chemical pollution and biological poisoning from natural toxins.
For the blackbird species alone, there have been 16 incidents in which 1,000 or more birds have died in single events over the past five years, he said.
The lab analyzes 300 to 500 large die-off events each year. The deaths involve all wildlife - deaths in 2010 are as varied as the demise of 4,500 bats from a fungal infection known as white-nose syndrome in Bucks County, Pa., to the death of 150 raccoons, striped skunks, coyotes and red fox in Los Angeles County.
The lab's website shows nine separate mortality events since December alone. Eight of those events involved bird species and one involved the gunshot deaths of dozens of Brazilian free-tailed bats near Pima, Ariz.
The National Wildlife Health Center also played a key role in the study of chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin's white-tailed deer population after an outbreak in February 2002.
"We don't know what we are going to get tomorrow, or the next day, but it will be something," Wright said.

[DeeWizzle]

U haven't heard?????

[GELATINOUS CUBE]

Masu, so what do you mean that I will have a bad week?
Do I know you somehow?
Do you know who I am?
Are you talking about gambling or otherwise?

You seemed to avoid my question but anyway too bad you got crushed tonight with your bets.

[mrmarket]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jUMR9hgvvvjAem8_8-v5V9Ow-nug?docId=eb2eb78242fe4290a414e0644cda18a6

[mikejamm]

I have had 3 goldfish die in the last week in my fish tank, coincidence? I think not.

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Very freaky stuff man!

[GELATINOUS CUBE]

thanks MrMarket... I guess it's totally natural for masses of brids to fall out of the sky with their innards liquified.


'in a nutshell, we're fukked'

(posted by other poster)

this.

[mrmarket]

I apologize.Your evidence clearly trumps anything I can provide. I concur that it is more beneficial to attribute the deaths to spiritual doomsday canaries/aliens. The end of the world is neigh so we should be prepared. I will continue to live in fear, prepare needlessly and generally waste my what is left of a life pathetically lived waiting for the end to happen. When it does I will live joyously because I have managed to survive and now live in a decimated civilization full of milk and honey. Clearly the survivors will revere me as a god for my preparation and this will alleviate the crushing social ineptitude and proceeding isolation that invariably led me to begin foretelling the end incessantly in the first place.

[thadchr]

Probably just a marketing campaign by Universal Studios two years in advance of the 50-year anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds. Either that or it's an omen for the end of the world in which case I advise everyone to max out credit cards and stock up on liquor.

[GELATINOUS CUBE]

What evidence?

MR MARKET, WHY WOULD I COME ON A GAMBLING SITE WITH EVIDENCE OF SCALAR MICROWAVE WEAPONS. READERS HAVE A COMPUTER RIGHT? YOU GUYS HAVE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET RIGHT? WELL HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON? I GUESS SOME PEOPLE JUST WATCH GAMECAST AND YOUTUBE RUSH VIDEOS OR SOMETHING? BUT THE HOLOCAUST IS ALL OVER THE INTERNET.

ALIENS AND SPIRITUAL CATFISH. WOW, GREAT SMOKESCREEN, REAL ORIGINAL. I'VE SAID BEFORE YOUR A FED CONTRACTED CYBERSECURITY AGENT MR. MARKET. MY PROOF? YOU'RE BLOCK PARAGRAPH WRITING STYLE FULL OF LAME DISINFORMATION AND ATTEMPTS AT SMOKESCREENING. WHAT DID YOUR BOSS TELL YOU, ASSURE THE SPORTS BETTORS THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT. MEANWHILE THE CELL TOWER WEAPONS ARE LOCKED LOADED AND POINTED AT US.

[OmgUrMom]

g-cube, this is gonna be a bad week for you

[The Madcap]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

[GELATINOUS CUBE]

Mom, how's that?

[asianfootballs]

Does this mean don't bet on the Falcons, Eagles and Ravens?

[GELATINOUS CUBE]

I FIGURED ANOTHER PSYOP POSTER WOULD CHIME IN TO GET ME TURNING. COVERING MY BACK. TURNING BACK TO THE FRONT.

ANY OTHER OF YOU LOSERS WANT TO TAKE A SHOT AT THE CHAMP?

BY THE WAY, I AM SORRY IF I WAKE UP ANY OF THE BRAIN DEAD SPORTS FANS ON HERE, BUT IT'S NOT LIKE ANY OF THEM CAN'T JUST GOOGLE A BIT AND FIND THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON.

[GELATINOUS CUBE]

ASIAN, BET ON RAYTHEON, BOEING, AND NASA.

[OmgUrMom]

G-cube, how big is your bunker?

[GELATINOUS CUBE]

Will bunkers stop gamma rays?

[mcbaseball10]

Anybody heard any updates about these mass deaths? Just disappeared from the news without much explanation.