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This line has me intrigued:
"the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."
High altitude hail I could see, but I am trying to picture how lightening could hit 1000 blackbirds at once.......

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

This line has me intrigued:
"the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."
High altitude hail I could see, but I am trying to picture how lightening could hit 1000 blackbirds at once.......

and how lightning would cause trama...

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hometutor 13 years ago

Originally Posted by aaron_nimocks

and how lightning would cause trama...

Yeah it would need to be grounded somehow wouldn't it?

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  Lightning can have a scatter effect - but not over a one square mile area - and that would be a one time event. Birds weren't burned and still aren't acting right and others have died since.
  
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linklover

13 years ago

Hope it's not what they call ABBF or... "Anything But Bird Flu"
It is a frequent diagnosis in Asia and Europe when large numbers of birds suddenly die from H5N1 but no one wants to admit it.

Having bird to bird H5N1 in your country is a very bad thing.
Having Human to Human H5N1 in your country is a very VERY BAD thing for the humans on the planet, especially in light of how WHO is handling the latest H1N1 epidemic breaking out in the UK right now. They are predicting a huge outbreak of serious illness when the kids go back to school this week. Already hospitals are at the breaking point in the north. Will they keep the schools closed a few more weeks? no... will they vaccinate the public? no... will they enact border controls so it doesn't spread worldwide in weeks? no

Thank you Margaret Chan of the WHO. You should be fired today.

As far as the birds are concerned, virologists have been waiting for H5N1 to spread to North America. I'm surprised its taken this long. Lets all hope this is a one off poisoning case.

It's certainly NOT lightening strikes, hail storms or fireworks that killed these birds.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by linklover

Hope it's not what they call ABBF or... "Anything But Bird Flu"
It is a frequent diagnosis in Asia and Europe when large numbers of birds suddenly die from H5N1 but no one wants to admit it.

Having bird to bird H5N1 in your country is a very bad thing.
Having Human to Human H5N1 in your country is a very VERY BAD thing for the humans on the planet, especially in light of how WHO is handling the latest H1N1 epidemic breaking out in the UK right now. They are predicting a huge outbreak of serious illness when the kids go back to school this week. Already hospitals are at the breaking point in the north. Will they keep the schools closed a few more weeks? no... will they vaccinate the public? no... will they enact border controls so it doesn't spread worldwide in weeks? no

Thank you Margaret Chan of the WHO. You should be fired today.

As far as the birds are concerned, virologists have been waiting for H5N1 to spread to North America. I'm surprised its taken this long. Lets all hope this is a one off poisoning case.

It's certainly NOT lightening strikes, hail storms or fireworks that killed these birds.

Eh, there is no bird flu epidemic in the UK? There are a few cases of swine flu, including a freind of a friend, but no bird flu.

It's obvious what happened here isn't it? Two men carrying a very large pane of glass.

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Maybe it was a very talented kid with a BB gun....
You never know....:rolleyes:
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linklover

13 years ago

Originally Posted by jasdon

Eh, there is no bird flu epidemic in the UK? There are a few cases of swine flu, including a freind of a friend, but no bird flu.

It's obvious what happened here isn't it? Two men carrying a very large pane of glass.

No there is NO Bird Flu in the UK as far as we know... but there is a huge surge of H1N1 "Swine Flu" hitting there. The hospitals are becoming overwhelmed. The flu is more severe than last year and is hitting both the under 5's and the teen - middle aged in large numbers.

All hell may break loose when school starts this next week.... possibly followed by the same in the US and the rest of europe.

Ans as far as I am concerned that large a group of birds dying suddenly - falling out of the sky is very possibly H5N1.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by KimW

This line has me intrigued:
"the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."
High altitude hail I could see, but I am trying to picture how lightening could hit 1000 blackbirds at once.......

Lightning is NOT that likely really, because the potential of the bird would be roughly the same as the air around it! Lightning is attracted to and can affect things with a DIFFERENT potential. A lot of people think electricity is some dangerous thing, etc... But MY GOD, computers, TVs, CARS, LIGHTS etc... will NOT even work unless you have TWO potentials(called positive and negative). That is how lightning rods work. They have a higher potential difference, or are closer with the same potential, and the lightning strikes THEM ignoring everything else. Which is ANOTHER point you made. If it hits one bird, it is because it is closer or has less potential than the rest. The rest won't be hit. They COULD conceivably be hit by the concussion of the instant change in temperature, that we would hear as thunder.

Hail is also not likely, since it is infrequent, smaller, and higher up would be more obvious and less likely to be large. BESIDES, the birds would likely try to avoid it.

I heard a GREAT theory that makes sense RIGHT DOWN TO THE MINUTE! ONE WORD!!!!!

FIREWORKS! Between being hit by concussion, schrapnel, noise, being startled, air changes, etc... You could imagine that birds within many YARDS of an exploding firework(Many COMMERCIAL fireworks shoot like rockets and explode high up in the air), must have a REALLY hard time even staying ALIVE, much less flying.

Ever go to a firing range? The concussion just from the GUNS(EVEN THOSE SHOT BY others) hits you in the chest. Imagine how much worse a firework must be.

BTW one pitied a bird because there was blood around it. The blood around it could only be due to 2 things, disregarding some weird illness....

1. schrapnel.
2. Impact with the ground.

I mean outside of the weight of the bird(some can weigh a LOT), and the top speed, you would think blood would be almost a given.

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linklover

13 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

BTW one pitied a bird because there was blood around it. The blood around it could only be due to 2 things, disregarding some weird illness....

1. schrapnel.
2. Impact with the ground.

I mean outside of the weight of the bird(some can weigh a LOT), and the top speed, you would think blood would be almost a given.

Steve

H5N1 in birds (as well as humans) is hemmoragic. They bleed. They die suddenly - yes in flight too - it has been documented across europe and Asia.

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Originally Posted by linklover

H5N1 in birds (as well as humans) is hemmoragic. They bleed. They die suddenly - yes in flight too - it has been documented across europe and Asia.

You would think if they had any sort of flu that they would get sick and stop flying prior to dying - I'm not an expert but that's just what you would think.

I also think it would be extremely strange for them all to die at the same time from flu, you'd think they would die in dribs and drabs, not all at the exact same time.

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linklover

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

You would think if they had any sort of flu that they would get sick and stop flying prior to dying - I'm not an expert but that's just what you would think.

I also think it would be extremely strange for them all to die at the same time from flu, you'd think they would die in dribs and drabs, not all at the exact same time.

That's how fast highly pathogenic H5N1 works. Fast. They literally fall out of trees, off wires, and out of the sky.

Latest news fro UK on H1N1 Swine Flu

thank G-d it's not H5N1)

FLU CASES TAKE BEDS MEANT FOR ILL BABIES (UK)
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By Paul Broster January 3,2011

SERIOUSLY ill babies and children are being forced to travel up to 100 miles for intensive care beds because of the deepening flu crisis, it emerged yesterday.

Schools put on swine flu alert: As Christmas holidays end, doctors warn of a 'children's epidemic'

Fiona Macrae 2nd January 2011

Britain is on the brink of a 'children's epidemic' of swine flu as schools and nurseries reopen this week.

Doctors warned last night the outbreak - already one of the worst in a decade - could 'explode' as at least nine million pupils return to their desks after the Christmas break.

Swine flu kills animal trainer on Harry Potter films

Nick Mcdermott 2nd January 2011

An animal trainer who worked on the Harry Potter films has become the latest swine flu victim.

Caroline Lois Benoist, 26, died on the Christmas weekend, only days after being sent home from her job at a film studio when she complained of feeling unwell

Writing to friends on her Facebook page on December 17, her final posting read: 'Loving being back home even if I do feel like death warmed up!'. She died just over a week later.

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seasoned

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka

You would think if they had any sort of flu that they would get sick and stop flying prior to dying - I'm not an expert but that's just what you would think.

I also think it would be extremely strange for them all to die at the same time from flu, you'd think they would die in dribs and drabs, not all at the exact same time.

Symptoms would likely come on suddenly, and could be in the middle of flying, and they could crash. But you're right, the flu would NOT affect them all at once. EVEN if the virus ALWAYS took EXACTLY the same time to kill, it would be based on contagion, which may be DAYS different.

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seasoned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by linklover

H5N1 in birds (as well as humans) is hemmoragic. They bleed. They die suddenly - yes in flight too - it has been documented across europe and Asia.

BUT, if it happened in flight, the blood would be spread farther.
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HeySal

13 years ago

I don't think I'd be hanging around there if that happened. It's the same thing that happens in caves full of cyanide gas. They send birds in ahead of search and rescue teams. If the birds don't make it back out - they don't go in.

You have oil in the water down there and no matter what anyone says, that oil can create toxic fumes. Another item that used to be conspiracy theory that is now known to be factual is chemtrails - if birds flew through a chemtrail and fell - same thing, get the hell out of there. They might be testing something even more lethal than what they already spread for radar enhancement.

Stuff that gets strange in that sense of strange is safest to wonder about at a distance.

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Patrician

13 years ago

... remember all the dead bees?

no mystery -- pesticides right? (duh)

could be something like that...

could be like a crop duster full of pesticide (but not at this time of year right?)

this is none the less verry verry strange.

sometimes at sf bay a big family of seals/sea lions will wash up dead - just terrible - and i forget what that was - but usually something like every day happenings that are poisoning everyone in turn.

p.s. the latest wayout conspiracy theory i've read is they are doing 'genocide' on humans to reduce the overpopulation.

they would do it/are doing it both in the h1n1 virus itself and then those who take the vaccine will get sterile.

... so some of us have neither the virus nor the vaccine.

poor birds....

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I don't think I'd be hanging around there if that happened. It's the same thing that happens in caves full of cyanide gas. They send birds in ahead of search and rescue teams. If the birds don't make it back out - they don't go in.

Stuff that gets strange in that sense of strange is safest to wonder about at a distance.

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linklover

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Patrician

... remember all the dead bees?

no mystery -- pesticides right? (duh)

could be something like that...

could be like a crop duster full of pesticide (but not at this time of year right?)

this is none the less verry verry strange.

sometimes at sf bay a big family of seals/sea lions will wash up dead - just terrible - and i forget what that was - but usually something like every day happenings that are poisoning everyone in turn.

p.s. the latest wayout conspiracy theory i've read is they are doing 'genocide' on humans to reduce the overpopulation.

they would do it/are doing it both in the h1n1 virus itself and then those who take the vaccine will get sterile.

... so some of us have neither the virus nor the vaccine.

poor birds....

The H1N1 vaccine is safe, I'd rather that then the virus.
I bet we hear no more about these birds. The coverup is in progress.

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HeySal

13 years ago

All in all a good theory, Steve..........except..........

When have you known blackbirds to fly at night?

There are fireworks all over the world on NY eve. How many of those places experience hordes of dead birds?

I still think it was a fume of some sort.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

All in all a good theory, Steve..........except..........

When have you known blackbirds to fly at night?

There are fireworks all over the world on NY eve. How many of those places experience hordes of dead birds?

I still think it was a fume of some sort.

About blackbirds flying at night, you have a point. BUT, unless they were dumped from a plane or something or some trees had tons of them and they just fell, NEAR THE TREES, they WERE flying. Hey, NOTHING is perfect. You and I are not really nocturnal, but HAVE been known to work in the night.

Birds usually stay AWAY from such things, etc... so they are NATURALLY not too likely to get hit. Besides, one or two stragglers won't even really be looked at, much less make the news.

YOUR theory is CERTAINLY possible, but AGAIN, they must have been flying or in a tree or some such and died NEAR it.

Of course, the lightning, hail, etc.... theories Require flight. It is HIGHLY unlikely one might be perched on the top of a tree, and impossible for thousands, so the hail/lightning theories require that they WERE flying! Below the tip, the tree would draw lightning away, and help isolate them from hail.

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Kay King

13 years ago

From the livescience blog:

"The birds showed physical trauma and that the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail," Rowe said. It's also possible New Year's Eve celebrators, shooting off fireworks, might have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress, Rowe speculated.

"Since it only involved a flock of blackbirds and only involved them falling out of the sky it is unlikely they were poisoned, but a necropsy is the only way to determine if the birds died from trauma or toxin," Rowe said.
The necropsies -- animal autopsies -- will begin on Monday in an effort to determine the cause.

Will be interesting to see if an answer is found. These birds flying as a flock fly very close together. I'd think a toxin would be the least likely scenario as it would disperse quickly in the surrounding air.

Especially true in the past few days when high winds and storms hit Arkansas hard. Don't know for sure but I'd think a "cloud" of anything would have blown apart quickly in this weekend's weather.

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Adam Roy

13 years ago

I think the guy below in the video is on something. For some reason his opening statement was about manitees lol. Just look at this guy, maybe he didn't sleep the night before. Too funny

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...78259#40878259

At the end was pretty funny too.

"how long does it take to get the birds tested?"

"ehhh...36, 48, 72 hours..." hahaha this guy's funny

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by Adam Roy

I think the guy below in the video is on something. For some reason his opening statement was about manitees lol. Just look at this guy, maybe he didn't sleep the night before. Too funny

msnbc.com Video Player

At the end was pretty funny too.

"how long does it take to get the birds tested?"

"ehhh...36, 48, 72 hours..." hahaha this guy's funny

He said, "very close by" when referring to the manatees ... since when is Florida very close by to Arkansas?

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linklover 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

He said, "very close by" when referring to the manatees ... since when is Florida very close by to Arkansas?

This guy has no business commenting on dead birds falling from the sky.
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  This guy has no business commenting on dead birds falling from the sky.
  
  I thought that guy was a total riot, made my day for sure.
  
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  A large fish kill is now reported in a river in the same vicinity as the bird deaths.
  
  I'm led to wondering something:
  
  In the past month there have been reports of numerous minor earthquakes in arkansas. Wonder if that is anyone close to those reportings? Earthquakes can releases gases...right?
  
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Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

He said, "very close by" when referring to the manatees ... since when is Florida very close by to Arkansas?

Well, to most people in Beijing...:rolleyes:
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  Well, to most people in Beijing...:rolleyes:
  
  Yeah, I'll bet that station gets a lot of air time in China.
  
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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

I love how she says 'all birds showed signs of trauma'

OF COURSE THEY SHOWED SIGNS OF TRAUMA - they fell out the sky and crashed into the ground!

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13 years ago

It does happen from time to time. There are reports of this every so often going back centuries. It's usually said to be caused by storms or high winds at sea, which carry dead birds long distances high in the atmosphere.

Or it might be the UFO people. They do things like this, just for the lulz.

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HeySal

13 years ago

I could see earthquakes being a problem to fish without gases. Anyone who owns an aquarium knows that it is torture to the fish when you tap on the glass. The pressure is like pounding them with a hammer.

As far as gases from quakes, it would be possible for gas pockets to release if a quake causes a fissure. But you said the wind was very strong down there when this was going on. Fish might still get it, but there would have had to have been pockets where gas could build up enough to be toxic - cyanide doesn't take much, don't know what concentrations of other things will do it. Chem-trails expand so that was my thought is that they were experimenting with something new. It's just so hard to say. It seems like weather that would cause mass trauma would have had a sound to it that someone would have recognized.

Of course, there will be a logical explanation given even if it WAS noxious gas from the spill causing the problems. We're supposed to think that everything is just fixing itself down there, but I've seen a few reports that things are dying off in the gulf and will continue to do so. With science being highly regulated and edited, it's doubtful that we're going to know any truths about that area for a long long time.

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13 years ago

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PatrickBrianONeill

13 years ago

A dose of chain lightning can create several "links" of devastating electrical power in a small area.

I can imagine that a small concussion may also occur, and could wipe out a bunch of birds just as concussion charges are used under sea.

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13 years ago

It is SICK that we have all these agencies that americans are spending BILLIONS for that are SUPPOSED to make the US SAFE, and help out the world. Yet we know about SO MUCH BAD that they have done that we can't trust them and EVEN suspect their complicity in things such as this.

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Kay King

13 years ago

Concussion makes sense - but I watched a news report form the area tonight and the remaining birds are still affected.

The ones that are left are not flying or are flying erratically, seem to have trouble walking, are silent - very odd something or other there.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

Concussion makes sense - but I watched a news report form the area tonight and the remaining birds are still affected.

The ones that are left are not flying or are flying erratically, seem to have trouble walking, are silent - very odd something or other there.

If there ARE a fair number of birds flying erratically, etc.... That shows it wasn't hail, lightning, fireworks, stress, etc... That is scary because it would indicate disease or poison.

That REALLY makes you wonder! It could even be some new disease that some group wanted to unleash on new year's. Maybe they infected the birds hoping the birds would infect crops and people. who knows, maybe the food was infected, and they ate some. YIKES!

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13 years ago

I agree, Steve. I keep wondering if there was seed discarded (contaminated) or something dumped or sprayed - but it would have to affect birds and fish. Why only blackbirds? I know they have a HIGH population of blackbirds but surely there are other bird species there, too.

Do blackbirds eat things other birds don't? This is a mystery I want to follow to see where it goes.

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Patrician

13 years ago

hey kay - this is a true story and the analogy might work for this.

My last job at a bank we had a smoke area outside in a garden/patio type outdoor lobby dealy.

There were birds and squirrels and what not that ran around there.

A certain time of year all the birds would drop dead all over.

The mystery. There were berries dropped all over from the trees at the same time as the dead birds dropped out.

Turns out it is no machevelian sinister plot.

Two Trues: The birds got drunk on the berries and smacked into the glass windows of the building, konking themselves to death.

Theory two is they ate so many berries that they gained weight and then they messed up when they tried to fly with the extra weight and hit the windows.

... but the black birds were tore up - something violent happened on the way to the forum....

dunno again.

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Do blackbirds eat things other birds don't? This is a mystery I want to follow to see where it goes.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by Patrician

hey kay - this is a true story and the analogy might work for this.

My last job at a bank we had a smoke area outside in a garden/patio type outdoor lobby dealy.

There were birds and squirrels and what not that ran around there.

A certain time of year all the birds would drop dead all over.

The mystery. There were berries dropped all over from the trees at the same time as the dead birds dropped out.

Turns out it is no machevelian sinister plot.

Two Trues: The birds got drunk on the berries and smacked into the glass windows of the building, konking themselves to death.

Theory two is they ate so many berries that they gained weight and then they messed up when they tried to fly with the extra weight and hit the windows.

... but the black birds were tore up - something violent happened on the way to the forum....

dunno again.

I wish I remembered the name given to it, but some birds, especially males, intentionally fly into glass over and over again supposedly thinking they are attacking an interloper. It happens around spring time.

BTW, the blackbirds might scare the others away, or there might be something that scares other birds, etc... As for the fish, maybe poison ran off into the water, or maybe the feed on birds or the excrement. I mean the birds aren't necessarily going to die only over land.

This same kind of thing happened when they used DDT. Animals ate food that was sprayed, some died. The DDT ran into the water, and played havok with everything.

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Sheryl Polomka

13 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

I wish I remembered the name given to it, but some birds, especially males, intentionally fly into glass over and over again supposedly thinking they are attacking an interloper. It happens around spring time.

We have a little Murray Magpie that spends hours flying into our dining room window. I think he see's himself and thinks it's another bird, whether he's attacking it or flirting with it I have no idea

He doesn't fly into it hard enough to kill himself though, it's actually quite interesting to sit and watch him.

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Kay King

13 years ago

At the casino where I worked we had a pedestrian walkway two stories above the street. It was enclosed - glass on both sides and ran from the parking garage to the casino.

After several birds died flying into the west side of the walkway, management installed little hangie things that moved in the air from A/C vents. Problem was the reflection for part of the day on the glass was a perfect image of sky and clouds. The birds couldn't see an obstruction until we added the little things to frighten them away.

Blackbirds are thick in that area of Arkansas - and large fireworks explosions landing in the woods might damage their hearing and balance - but I can't see that happening when this took place over a square mile of space.

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

Blackbirds are thick in that area of Arkansas - and large fireworks explosions landing in the woods might damage their hearing and balance - but I can't see that happening when this took place over a square mile of space.

A square mile for the concussion of commercial fireworks is probably NOTHING! BESIDES, the birds were moving, likely didn't fall STRAIGHT down, etc... so a mile on the ground could represent a smaller area in the sky.

Of course, fireworks, or lightning or hail for that matter, should NOT hurt fish.

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Bill Farnham

13 years ago

Originally Posted by seasoned

A square mile for the concussion of commercial fireworks is probably NOTHING! BESIDES, the birds were moving, likely didn't fall STRAIGHT down, etc... so a mile on the ground could represent a smaller area in the sky.

In the 1970's in Grayson, Marland a flock of blackbirds numbering in the millions settled in for a time in a small forested area while they pillaged the local farmlands. By the time they left the bird droppings were almost 7" deep in that forested area.

The locals tried everything they could from all coming out with shotguns and firing volleys to scare the birds, to TNT, and even got the local fire depts to start spraying the birds hoping they would freeze to death.

Nothing worked until the birds exhusted the food supply and left.

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seasoned

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bill Farnham

In the 1970's in Grayson, Marland a flock of blackbirds numbering in the millions settled in for a time in a small forested area while they pillaged the local farmlands. By the time they left the bird droppings were almost 7" deep in that forested area.

The locals tried everything they could from all coming out with shotguns and firing volleys to scare the birds, to TNT, and even got the local fire depts to start spraying the birds hoping they would freeze to death.

Nothing worked until the birds exhusted the food supply and left.

YEP, wild animals, including birds, CAN be persistent.

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HeySal

13 years ago

Holy cow. Sounds like a nightmare coming down the pike doesn't it? I wonder where they were before they all went airborn - sounds like poison if both are being effected. I just wonder what kind of poison. Anything down there burning fly ash?

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82ana

13 years ago

This was because of the NewYrs fireworks... probably but the local authorities say they can't be sure...

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HeySal

13 years ago

Exactly how far from the water where the dead fish were did all this take place?

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linklover

13 years ago

the birds were scattered over a mile. No flying into an object and falling.
The birds have internal hemorrhaging. - symptom of H5N1
The birds left alive have a neurological weakness - symptom of H5N1

and now this...

500 birds found dead in Louisiana
www dot neworleans dot com/news/local-news/552255.html]500[/url] birds found dead in Louisiana

Louisiana State biologists are trying to determine what killed an estimated 500 birds, specifically red-winged blackbirds and starlings.
The Associated Press reports the birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Point Coupee Parish.
Three days before the birds cluttered Louisiana Highway 1, more than 3 thousand blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas. Authorities say examinations showed those birds suffered internal injuries that formed deadly blood clots.
The birds found in Louisiana are being sent to laboratories in Georgia and Wisconsin for testing
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Dead birds mysteriously appear in Kentucky
Posted: Jan 04, 2011 10:32 AM
Updated: Jan 04, 2011 10:32 AM

www dot fox41 dot com/story/13779745/dead-birds-appearing-in-kentucky]Dead birds mysteriously appear in Kentucky - FOX41.com Louisville News Kentucky Indiana News Weather Sports

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) -- A Paducah television news station is reporting that a Gilbertsville, Ky. woman has found dozens of dead birds in her front yard.

It's a story that sounds eerily similar to an event that took place in Arkansas over the weekend. Residents there have found 3,000 dead blackbirds on the ground, starting last Friday. Biologists have developed several theories on the cause of the deaths, but have been at a loss to determine a solid conclusion.

On Monday, WPSD Local 6 in Paducah, Ky. reported that a woman named Sandy -- she would not divulge her last name -- found dozens of dead birds in her yard.

"I've never seen anything like it," Sandy said. "It's really creepy."

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Enfusia 13 years ago

You're forgetting that over 80,000 fish died in the same area at the same exact time as well.
Blackbirds fall from sky, fish die off: What's a conspiracy theorist to think? - CSMonitor.com

It would be highly unlikely that 4k+ birds and 80k+ fish all croak at one time from lightning unless the bolt came from Zeus himself!
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- Sea1c 13 years ago
  
  It is simple, have none of you seen a James Bond movie? It is obviously the work of an evil genius....we can not see what the goal is, but that is why they are considered a genius, plans within plans.....killing the birds means there are more worms around which in turn means better soil irrigation....ummm maybe they like fresh vegetables.....:confused:
  
  Fascinating stuff, wonder if it is a natural thing or yet another man made screw up
  
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  Bill Farnham 13 years ago
  
  I wouldn't put it past some military contractor to "test" their technology using some of the new devices that are coming out on a flock of birds. Perhaps the result was way more damage than expected. Same for the fish.
  
  Some of the new 'crowd control' devices would be capable of inflicting this kind of mass destruction.
  
  Not saying that's the case, only commenting that if it ever came out that is what happened I wouldn't be the least surprised.
  
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KimW

13 years ago

See here:
http://www.warriorforum.com/off-topi...ml#post3121183

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linklover

13 years ago

There are lots of poultry farms near Beebe, AR
If they experience die offs, then it's H5N1.
Lets keep our ears open.

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linklover

13 years ago

and now...

Texans are observing hundreds of dead birds on an East Texas bridge, according to a breaking report by KLTV in Tyler. This latest discovery compounds the mystery of recent reported discoveries of dozens, hundreds, even thousands of dead birds and fish documented in the southern United States as well as dead wildlife reports in other parts of the world this week. Around 200 birds were found dead on a Hwy 155 bridge over the Lake O' the Pines, this morning.The cause of death of the birds identified as American Coots is unknown. Lake O' the Pines is located on Big Cypress Creek in the Cypress River Basin, 25 miles northeast of Longview.Experts initially contacted by KLTV considered the large number of dead birds spotted on an east Texas bridge to most probably be a natural occurrence in the area.KLTV updated their report with information from Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Media Communication Director, Tom Harvey, who says it is not uncommon to see dozens of dead birds on this bridge.The Corps of Engineers office at Lake O' the Pines reports that they are not sure why kills like this happen, but they think it likely that the birds get hit and killed by motor vehicles while walking, roosting or flying on and around the bridge. Greg Conley, from the Corp of Engineers, recalls seeing a similar situation involving multiple dead birds on bridges and roadways around Lake Fork. He considers this incident to be unrelated to the Arkansas situation.

www dot allvoices dot com/contributed-news/7800408-now-east-texas-also-reports-hundreds-of-dead-birds

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HeySal

13 years ago

A handful of dead birds getting hit by cars is the same as hundreds and thousands falling dead? Happening all over the US south but that's not unusual?

Sounds like the Gov is going to come in and take care of this one.........just as well as they took care of that missile off the coast a few weeks ago.

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Patrician

13 years ago

Calling BP, calling BP - lol -

hey sally says - wasn't there a freak tornado or something that went through the midwest in the past 30 or so days?

oh wow and remember there was a meteor shower at the weird eclipse a few weeks back. what is it once every 700 years type of eclipse on the solstice.

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Patrician

13 years ago

oh the bird stories that come to mind from this thread - this is the 2nd one.

it is also an 'only in california' one.

In a place called Pleasanton they have Crow Canyon Road and a lot of big huge telecom and tech corps have offices there.

Piddly parking lots and small streets moving up to the 'office park'.

Lunch time: 2 block long solid traffic jam leading into the parking lots. WTF?

what is going on? a wreck or cops or what?

Oh, pardon me. It is the Crows. They insist on walking in the cross walk - they are probably too fat to fly.

... and it is just like little punks that take as long as they possibly can while people sit in their cars and past the first block they are starting to honk their horns and other useful actions*.

The first block all think it is so cute and they are doing their civic duty to let the crows cross (and not bang their heads on their steerwheel).

Are crows deaf?*

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waterotter

13 years ago

This was posted today by Obseerver: http://www.warriorforum.com/off-topi...worldwide.html

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linklover 13 years ago

Now Italy

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

www dot huffingtonpost dotcom/2011/01/06/birds-dying-in-italy-thou_n_805541.html
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HeySal 13 years ago

Originally Posted by waterotter

This was posted today by Obseerver: http://www.warriorforum.com/off-topi...worldwide.html

Yeah - I just posted to that thread - a big post, then found out I wasn't in this thread. LMAO.

I never took much note of what HAARP was up to - but now I'm wondering if they actually did that stratosphere experiment that everyone was saying they were going to do. Except that still might not explain the fish.

I really can't shake the feeling that we are in some deep dookey and nobody is going to come clean about what it is until it's too late for us to protect ourselves. For our own good, ya know - we can't be trusted with the truth after all.

Think I might go take a visit with some of my scientist friends and see if they have an inkling about what's going on.
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