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I am amazed that no one has commented on this


Over 3,000 birds were found dead in Arkansas in America on New Year's Day. Most of them were red-winged blackbirds, and no-one really knows what killed them.

Days after a number of dead birds appeared to fall from the sky in America a similar event has happened in Sweden. Tests are being carried out in a bid to find out what happened.

The commission also is trying to determine what caused the deaths of up to 100,000 fish over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River near a dam in Ozark , 125 miles west of Beebe. The fish were discovered on Dec. 30.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40904491/ns ... vironment/

http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2 ... y-is-weird

And what's happening to the whales?

And what happened to the mutilated cows?

Fireworks, I read.

Problem: Japanese sashimi.

Fireworks, I read.

According to the autopsies, the birds had injuries consistent with trauma such as hitting a hard object. Its as though they all flew into an invisible wall in the sky

According to the autopsies, the birds had injuries consistent with trauma such as hitting a hard object. Its as though they all flew into an invisible wall in the sky.

..most probably consistent with hitting the ground.

I am amazed that no one has commented on this

More than 1,000 turtle doves fall from the sky in Italy in latest mass bird death case

After cavalcades of dead birds and fish from Arkansas and Texas to Sweden and New Zealand, tests are being carried out on the bodies of turtle doves in Italy after hundreds rained down near Ravenna.

For the last five days wildlife experts and officers from the forestry commission have picked up more than 1,000 turtle doves as well as other birds including pigeons.
Yesterday alone 300 corpses were recovered with all of them having a blue tinge to their beaks, which scientists say indicates poisoning or hypoxia which is lack of oxygen that can confuse animals.
The incident in the town of Faenza in northern Italy comes after a series of similar cases across the world in the United States and Sweden.
It is not just birds that have been affected, with millions of dead fish also washing up on river banks and coastlines.
The turtle dove case is the largest incident to have hit Europe so far – in Sweden 50 jackdaws were found dead. Italian officials said they expected results from the tests on Monday.
Most of the birds have been found around an industrial estate on the outskirts of Faenza but others have also been found closer to the centre in trees and on roads and pavements.
One local newspaper covering the incident wrote: "Let's hope it is poisoning or an illness because that would be easier to deal with than it being a sign the world is coming to an end."
Massimo Bolognesi, of the local World Wildlife Federation, said: "We first started getting reports on Sunday and since then they have been coming in every day.
"We have collected more than 1,000 turtle doves corpses but there is also the odd pigeon as well and all of them have this blue tint to their beak which could indicate poisoning or hypoxia.
"Tests are being carried out on the bodies by the local forestry commission and we should get the results next week but it's the numbers that make this such a notable event and for the moment it is a mystery."

They were dead before they landed on the ground......according to witnesses that saw it happen.

According to scientists who are studying why 5,000 birds fell from Beebe, Arkansas skies late New Year’s Eve, massive trauma was likely the culprit. Tests conducted on some of the dead blackbirds indicates they were healthy and free of disease, but signs of internal bleeding and tissue damage were present. In addition, their stomachs and gizzards were empty, thus they were not poisoned. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission reported “The trauma was primarily in breast tissue, with clots in the body cavity and internal bleeding.”
According to WFSA, authorities are still unclear as to why the blackbirds were flying at night, which they don’t normally do

And what is killing Britain's seals on the east coast?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... seals.html



An artist's depiction of the deadly corkscrew wounds found on the dead seals.....sounds like they are being sucked into some sort of machine operating northeast of Norwich and in the Firth of Forth.

52 of them have been washed up dead and many more bodies will probably never be found - mutilated by a macabre cutting wound, which begins at the neck and spirals around their bodies, slicing through their thick outer coat and blubber in a continuous incision, as if they had been fed through a huge pencil-sharpener.

read the article...any ideas?

According to this article, it was possibly a wind farm of the shores of Norfolk that killed the seals. I can't see how they could have got so close to the propeller blades though?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... eaths.html
Regards
Nic