Mysterious death of thousands of birds and fish

JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
edited January 2011 in A Moving Train
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Thousands of dead birds and fish in Arkansas leave many scratching heads
By Brett Michael Dykes

Maybe the Mayans were on to something?

That's surely what students of the famed Mayan 2012 prophecy for the end of the world had to be thinking with the news of recent eerie wildlife die-offs in Arkansas. Just as the calendar nudged a year closer to that fateful date, birds began falling from the sky in Arkansas and a massive fish kill occurred some 125 miles to the west.

Roughly 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky over a mile of land near Beebe, a small town in northwest Arkansas, and observers spotted the fish kill near the town of Ozark.

No one seems to know just yet what caused the two die-offs. But theories abound.

In a statement Saturday morning, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission quoted staff ornithologist Karen Rowe as saying that such events have happened before around the world: "Test results usually were inconclusive, but the birds showed physical trauma and that the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."

Because it happened New Year's Eve, some officials suggest that revelers shooting fireworks may have spooked the birds, to the point that they died en masse from stress-induced cardiac arrest.

"It is unlikely they were poisoned," Rowe said, "but a necropsy is the only way to determine if the birds died from trauma or toxin." Tests were to begin Monday.

Meanwhile, wildlife officials say that the estimated 100,000 drum fish discovered by a tugboat captain over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River appears to be a natural occurrence that isn't tied to the bird kill in any way.

"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told CNN. "If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish." He added that fish kills in the area are common, though this one was larger than most.

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.

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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    I saw this and wondered why these blackbirds were flying at night when they don't usually do so?

    Peace
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    this angry birds game is getting out of hand! :shock:
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    norm wrote:
    this angry birds game is getting out of hand! :shock:


    i really trying not to panic, but the last few years it's been one thing after another, that 2012 stuff, is starting to worry me.
  • Apparently this happens fairly often. I'd say with the weather that was in the area at the time it's nothing to be concerned with.
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    really? i had kind of hoped the Goverment was trying some new nerve gas and the birds flew through it and died later at and around the same place, at least that was the hope, the alternative was scray. but i'm opptimist kind of ;) i'll take weather to blame.
  • dr0ptheleashdr0ptheleash Posts: 1,264
    I have read about this, too. It is eerie and fascinating, and I hope there is some sort of answer for all of us soon. I don't blame those parents in the area who will not allow their children outside for the time being.
  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    She did it!

    e8fbb1e9.jpg
    I'll be back
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    is there a military base close by ?......oh wait..is our planet under attack from aliens from outer space ? :lol:
    kinda goes hand in hand with the mutilated cows and ufo's that sound just like helicopters.with birds and fish going belly up who knows.
    I also read this story and it dose seem weird,my first thought was some kind of military experiments in the area.

    Godfather.
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    She did it!

    e8fbb1e9.jpg

    love that picture !..bikini's guns and political power make me jumpy with excitement :lol::lol:

    Godfather.
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    She did it!

    e8fbb1e9.jpg

    Thats Hot!
  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Tenzing N. wrote:
    Apparently this happens fairly often. I'd say with the weather that was in the area at the time it's nothing to be concerned with.

    If it was weather it wouldn't be limited to one species of birds. (just blackbirds)
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Tenzing N. wrote:
    Apparently this happens fairly often. I'd say with the weather that was in the area at the time it's nothing to be concerned with.

    If it was weather it wouldn't be limited to one species of birds. (just blackbirds)

    I was wondering, I have heard that animals are very sensitive to things like earth quakes storms etc.
    could this be a warning of some sort to a upcoming storm or other catastrophe ? just a thought.

    Godfather.
  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,642
    i really trying not to panic, but the last few years it's been one thing after another, that 2012 stuff, is starting to worry me.

    Me too.

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  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,497
    Black Birds????

    Must have been W. He hates black birds, or so I heard.
    hippiemom = goodness
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    edited January 2011
    Godfather. wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Tenzing N. wrote:
    Apparently this happens fairly often. I'd say with the weather that was in the area at the time it's nothing to be concerned with.

    If it was weather it wouldn't be limited to one species of birds. (just blackbirds)

    I was wondering, I have heard that animals are very sensitive to things like earth quakes storms etc.
    could this be a warning of some sort to a upcoming storm or other catastrophe ? just a thought.

    Godfather.

    You may have something there, I did hear that Jeb Bush might take a run at becoming our next president. Do you think that could be it? Wow, is it next year already that we will have a Presidential election?

    Peace
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    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    Godfather. wrote:
    She did it!

    e8fbb1e9.jpg

    love that picture !..bikini's guns and political power make me jumpy with excitement :lol::lol:

    Godfather.

    I posted it just for you.
    I'll be back
  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    edited January 2011
    Samething just happened in Louisiana a couple days ago. They said the birds in AR had internal injuries
    Post edited by Nothingman54 on
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Godfather. wrote:
    She did it!

    e8fbb1e9.jpg

    love that picture !..bikini's guns and political power make me jumpy with excitement :lol::lol:

    Godfather.

    I posted it just for you.

    that was right neighborly of you, thanks :lol:

    Godfather.
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Just heard they are still falling dead. I live 20 min from Arkansas, hope whatever is causing it dosent come to TN

    I'm going to take a guess and say it's a gas of some sort, maybe methane gas that come up from the bottom of a lake or pond and that would explain the fish dieing also....maybe.

    Godfather.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Sweden? Haiti?? New Zealand?? Chesapeake Bay??? :shock:

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-p ... s-col-blog
  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    norm wrote:
    Sweden? Haiti?? New Zealand?? Chesapeake Bay??? :shock:

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-p ... s-col-blog

    That's some crazy shit. It has to be a virus or something. I can't imagine it being fireworks or powerlines.
    I'll be back
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    well the gas theory just went out the window,could this have anything to do with that BP oil spill ?

    Godfather.
  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    Godfather. wrote:
    well the gas theory just went out the window,could this have anything to do with that BP oil spill ?

    Godfather.


    I think most of the bird deaths in Louisiana have been in Northern Louisiana, although I don't know of the migrating patterns of those birds.

    But, not sure how the BP spill could mess with birds around the rest of the world.
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Thorns2010 wrote:
    Godfather. wrote:
    well the gas theory just went out the window,could this have anything to do with that BP oil spill ?

    Godfather.


    I think most of the bird deaths in Louisiana have been in Northern Louisiana, although I don't know of the migrating patterns of those birds.

    But, not sure how the BP spill could mess with birds around the rest of the world.

    just a guess but I watched a rerun of the floating drill barge explosion and the amount of gas and other things that flew into the air was unreal, they were and are drilling 5x deeper then ever before and it made me wonder what else besides oil may have come up from the belly of the earth in that explosion, just a thought anyway.

    Godfather.
  • dharma69dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    Well here's the latest 'explanation' to this phenomenon...lets send it up the flagpole and see it anyone salutes:

    Top U.S. Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Test Causes Mass Death

    Now mind you, I heard about this gentleman's death on the news one day, then the birds and fish thing the next.

    Spooky, much?
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    dharma69 wrote:
    Well here's the latest 'explanation' to this phenomenon...lets send it up the flagpole and see it anyone salutes:

    Top U.S. Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Test Causes Mass Death

    Now mind you, I heard about this gentleman's death on the news one day, then the birds and fish thing the next.

    Spooky, much?

    that was an interesting article, James Bond kind of stuff and yes a bit scary.

    Godfather.
  • ed243421ed243421 Posts: 7,672
    do i have this right?
    he was found on friday the 31st in the a.m.
    then the bird kill happened that night?

    at first glance
    seems coincidental, but
    the fireworks report is very shady

    more to come?
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  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    dharma69 wrote:
    Well here's the latest 'explanation' to this phenomenon...lets send it up the flagpole and see it anyone salutes:

    Top U.S. Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Test Causes Mass Death

    Now mind you, I heard about this gentleman's death on the news one day, then the birds and fish thing the next.

    Spooky, much?

    Interesting...

    I don't buy the fireworks explanation either.
  • UpSideDownUpSideDown Posts: 1,966
    dharma69 wrote:
    Well here's the latest 'explanation' to this phenomenon...lets send it up the flagpole and see it anyone salutes:

    Top U.S. Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Test Causes Mass Death

    Now mind you, I heard about this gentleman's death on the news one day, then the birds and fish thing the next.

    Spooky, much?

    Interesting article, although I'm a little confused by the sudden America bashing that fills the last three paragraphs......
  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    dharma69 wrote:
    Well here's the latest 'explanation' to this phenomenon...lets send it up the flagpole and see it anyone salutes:

    Top U.S. Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Test Causes Mass Death

    Now mind you, I heard about this gentleman's death on the news one day, then the birds and fish thing the next.

    Spooky, much?

    I'm not buying it
    I'll be back
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