Even More Birds Falling

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Well, apparently I haven't found a website with the actual news on it currently, but here's what I saw this morning...

Apparently, not only has this "Bird Falling" incident been found in Sweden & Kentucky, but also located near and in San Fransisco, CA. (I probably spelt that wrong)

But anyways, around 100 birds fell from the sky in California this morning and last night all along a frequent highway and many roads.

With what has been said by the news, their last report was this: "These unexplainable inccidents are being currently studied by many biologists, to further determine what the cause of this is."

BUT, listen to this...

With both the birds falling in Kentucky and Sweden, the same situation of the birds in California are found. None of the birds have suffered any specific trauma towards their bodies, but all of them seem to just have suddenly died without any specific cause.

So far, for all the situations, there are now reports of blood infections, damaged organs, nor head trauma.

The Bay Area News Watch (Everyday at 10AM & 10PM), had this to say: "Without any further conclusion, we have no definate results for these events, but this will be figured out only in a matter of time..."

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Now, I know I shouldn't be worried or anything, but with all these freak occurances, and deaths of animals, who knows what will happen next? Could this really be a sign for the end of the world? Could this just be coincidence?
Or could this be a sign for something much worse?

Like seriously, there are no explinations for how these birds and fish are dying, but it keeps on happening...
First they said it was fireworks, then they said it was trauma from lightning and loud noises, and now they have literally no clue what is going on...

Personally, I think we could be going towards a possible apocolypse... or something else of a serious matter...

What do the rest of you think?
 
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There have numerous reports airing here about the first widely-report "bird incident" in Louisiana on January 1. Contrary to the OP, they found severe blunt trauma to most all of the birds, and concluded they were likely scared into night flight (the have very poor night vision) and collided into various poles, trees and structures.

They also had zoologist and bird experts who said these are actually fairly common occurances, happening hundreds of times a year. This is simply the first time it's ever become a national news story mimicked on numerous networks.
 
Tangerine said:
They also had zoologist and bird experts who said these are actually fairly common occurances, happening hundreds of times a year. This is simply the first time it's ever become a national news story mimicked on numerous networks.
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Fairly common? Uh, I'm not sure about that claim. I've lived on this planet for a long time and have never heard of this phenomenon. Ever.

People talk, dontcha know. Don't you think that someone would have mentioned finding a bunch of dead birds, at sometime over the years?
 
GoldDust Woman said:
Fairly common? Uh, I'm not sure about that claim. I've lived on this planet for a long time and have never heard of this phenomenon. Ever.

People talk, dontcha know. Don't you think that someone would have mentioned finding a bunch of dead birds, at sometime over the years?
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I would trust people who make their living studying birds and their health and habits over any TV reporter on the planet. They probably know exactly how many times each year they get called to check things like that out.

It's exactly the same as a few summers ago when the national media was reporting all of these shark attacks one after the other on people at beaches. You'd see network reports labelling it "The Summer of the Shark." Well it turns out that particular summer had the LOWEST number of shark attacks on people in a 20-year span. But it was the first time it became a national media event, so the perception was that it was some unusually high occurance.
 
I wasn't making reference to TV reporters.

Let's say one of your very good friends goes outside and finds a bunch of dead birds had fallen over night in their yard. Then, another very good friend of yours, in an entirely different state, goes out into their yard and finds a bunch of dead birds that had fallen over night. Don't you think those friends would have said something to you? If just in passing, at how odd it is? I'm not talking about now, that it's been mentioned on TV... I'm talking about years past.
 
porterjack said:
to be honest i dont think people spoke of such to their friends before the advent of the internet, each local event would have been readily dismissed as some "freak o nature" and quickly forgotten
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I can only speak for myself here. I can guarantee any of you, had I encountered a slew of dead birds in my yard in years past (long before the internet), I would have said something to someone. To my parents, or my siblings or my good friends. I would have told someone... is my point.
 
GoldDust Woman said:
I can only speak for myself here. I can guarantee any of you, had I encountered a slew of dead birds in my yard in years past (long before the internet), I would have said something to someone. To my parents, or my siblings or my good friends. I would have told someone... is my point.
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There are billions of people on the planet, and hundreds of dead bird incidents like this each year. The probability that you actually know someone who witnessed one of them is very, very, very low.

The probability that a biologist who specializes in birds has heard of them is much, much higher.


Rueters News said:
WASHINGTON — First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world. Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the "aflockalypse" while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental.
The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated.
Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other.
"They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science.
Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery.
In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California.
On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada.
"Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said.
Weather – cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year's Eve when the birds fell out of the sky – is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths.
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I agree with Tangerine. A few dead birds out of billions isn't something extraordinary.
Here's some simple maths :

A hundred deads birds + hundred more dead birds = Not a big deal
A hundred deads birds + hundred more dead birds + some average sized news network coverage + gullible and sensationalist readership = The apocolypse
 
brieze said:
I halfway agree with tangerine and zorak. I read where biologists said it's nothing new. BUT, I can't shake the feeling of a cover-up. The explanations seem a little too... easy. *shrugs* I'm a confused girl =/
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I agree.

We hear of whales beaching themsleves regularly, and its often because the pod has followed a sick one with an "off" radar...(for want of better words)

I read a story recently where it said that true magnetic north is moving at a much faster rate than before...and I wonder if this is screwing up the birds/fish sonar/radar systems.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40934547/ns/local_news-tampa_fl/
 
cam elle toe said:
I agree.

We hear of whales beaching themsleves regularly, and its often because the pod has followed a sick one with an "off" radar...(for want of better words)

I read a story recently where it said that true magnetic north is moving at a much faster rate than before...and I wonder if this is screwing up the birds/fish sonar/radar systems.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40934547/ns/local_news-tampa_fl/
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That makes sense to me. I keep hearing a lot about HAARP, too.
 
cam elle toe said:
I agree.

We hear of whales beaching themsleves regularly, and its often because the pod has followed a sick one with an "off" radar...(for want of better words)

I read a story recently where it said that true magnetic north is moving at a much faster rate than before...and I wonder if this is screwing up the birds/fish sonar/radar systems.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40934547/ns/local_news-tampa_fl/
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and now I have Batfink in my head....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSee8XMu_sI&feature=related
 
brieze said:
I halfway agree with tangerine and zorak. I read where biologists said it's nothing new. BUT, I can't shake the feeling of a cover-up. The explanations seem a little too... easy. *shrugs* I'm a confused girl =/
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Who exactly is covering something up? All of these events are in unconnected parts of the world with completely different groups of authorities dealing with them. Do you think there's some international organization that's scheming to lie about it? What possible motive could there be for that?
 
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