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Dead Birds in the News...

DustDevil

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I haven't heard anyone suggest this, but it could be all the dead birds in, where was it, Arkansas and Mississippi? might have been caused by all the tornadic weather just before they showed up dead. I wonder if they weren't killed directly, ie sucked up as flocks and spat out, or caught up in updrafts, etc. carried a ways and died of cold or exhaustion. Maybe somebody's already covered this theory. Fireworks as a possible cause didn't make any sense to me. After Hurricane Ike, they foud a group of some kind of African cranes near Anahuac, Tx that the Game Wardens / Texas Parks and Wildlife said got caught in the eye of the storm and rode it all the way to the Gulf Coast.
 

Jassy

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It is sure a strange thing and I saw on the news that this is not just related to the states, it's happened in other countries along with masses of fish dying. I'm not sure if there ever will be a concrete answer... :???:
 

balestabber

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some realistic ideas for the birds,but what about the thousands of fish?
it is unique that the birds and fish that were lost were sort of on a straight
line on a map.
 

Soapweed

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Eagles died over south Philadelphia also. :wink:

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Birds_mysteriously_drop_dead_over_South_Philadelphhia_.html
 

DustDevil

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Soapweed said:
Eagles died over south Philadelphia also. :wink:

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Birds_mysteriously_drop_dead_over_South_Philadelphhia_.html

That's pretty cold! :lol:
 

mrj

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'Experts' on the critters, birds and fish both, say it is a natural phenomenon and happens often, and in even greater numbers at times. It was apparently noticed more now, for some reason (or none!), than at other times it has happened.

It actually sounded as if some people in some of the areas of great red wing blackbird deaths were not at all sad........farmers, I believe!

Driving through eastern SD's large farming areas last fall, we marveled at the numbers of small birds, let alone the pheasants, geese, and other larger ones,, and deer, on the crops of millet, corn, and other crops. And wondered if there is any accurate estimates of how many dollars it costs the farmers to 'feed' wildlife.

mrj
 

DustDevil

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mrj said:
'Experts' on the critters, birds and fish both, say it is a natural phenomenon and happens often, and in even greater numbers at times. It was apparently noticed more now, for some reason (or none!), than at other times it has happened.

It actually sounded as if some people in some of the areas of great red wing blackbird deaths were not at all sad........farmers, I believe!

Driving through eastern SD's large farming areas last fall, we marveled at the numbers of small birds, let alone the pheasants, geese, and other larger ones,, and deer, on the crops of millet, corn, and other crops. And wondered if there is any accurate estimates of how many dollars it costs the farmers to 'feed' wildlife.

mrj
There aren't many rice farmers here anymore, I know they wouldn't have mourned the loss of redwing blackbirds for very long.
 

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