This is a weird story. They are blaming stress, fireworks, (but these things happen all the time) are they trying to calm people with uninformed guesses? Now I'm hearing that it is happening in Louisiana.

[Dead Birds fall from sky]

Was this near Fordyce, Arkansas?

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The Sicilian
Now I'm hearing that it is happening in Louisiana.

This is the first I'm hearing about the Louisiana part.

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Koen
Was this near Fordyce, Arkansas?

Funny!

Here is the link to the dead fish in Arkansas that happened within one day of eachother:

[100,000 dead fish wash up in Arkansas]

Nature is crazy. I wake up every morning and say to myself: We did it again. Hello world!

Bjornulf

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The Sicilian
Now I'm hearing that it is happening in Louisiana.

This is the first I'm hearing about the Louisiana part.

The Sicilian may be refers to this :

LABARRE, La. (AP) - State biologists are trying to determine what killed an estimated 500 birds that littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Point Coupee Parish.

The birds included red-winged blackbirds and starlings.

Monday's discovery along Louisiana Highway 1 came just three days after more than 3,000 blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe, Ark. Authorities say examinations showed those birds suffered internal injuries that formed deadly blood clots.

Louisiana state biologists are sending some of the birds found at Labarre to laboratories in Georgia and Wisconsin for testing.

[www.knoe.com]


Information from: The Advocate, [www.2theadvocate.com]

Don't laugh, but I have bird feeders in my yard and since I work outdoors I am always on the lookout for different types of birds and such. I enjoy attracting new birds to the feeders and my 5 year old daughter loves it as well. She can identify just about every bird that visits.

Those red-winged blackbirds and starlings that are down south are spring and summer mainstay up here in the north until they migrate in late summer and fall.

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Authorities now believe fireworks are to blame for the thousands of black birds that litter Arkansas streets and lawns. Game and fish officials think fireworks on New Year's Eve startled the birds from their regular roost-and disoriented and lost-they say the birds probably ran into each other. But residents aren't buying that. Dozens of the birds were dissected Monday at three separate labs-and autopsies show they weren't poisoned-and they didn't suffer from any disease.

[www.wilx.com]

Worlds coming to a end? No Stones Album or tour for 2011? Nothing to live for!! hahah
Anyway Sad news as wildlife have a hard life.

Anyone remember the thread someone posted a couple of years ago about all the bees that were dying or disappearing?

That poster was practically saying the end of times were here, that the world's food supply was in peril because bees weren't pollinating, etc.

Last I heard the food supply is in pretty good shape in most parts of the world and honey is still relatively cheap at the supermarket.

Global warming.

They heard about Muddy painting the 'godamm ceiling' and fell from the sky in shock!

UFO! Government is hiding it!

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Edith Grove
Anyone remember the thread someone posted a couple of years ago about all the bees that were dying or disappearing?

That poster was practically saying the end of times were here, that the world's food supply was in peril because bees weren't pollinating, etc.

Last I heard the food supply is in pretty good shape in most parts of the world and honey is still relatively cheap at the supermarket.

The difference is those events were a gradual ongoing occurance, this was an immediate event that suddenly happened.

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Edith Grove
Anyone remember the thread someone posted a couple of years ago about all the bees that were dying or disappearing?

That poster was practically saying the end of times were here, that the world's food supply was in peril because bees weren't pollinating, etc.

Last I heard the food supply is in pretty good shape in most parts of the world and honey is still relatively cheap at the supermarket.

The difference is those events were a gradual ongoing occurance, this was an immediate event that suddenly happened.

Difference noted, but I'm still willing to bet this can be explained and there won't be much to worry about.

I'm likening this to those occasional fish kills you hear about every once in a while.

[www.aolnews.com]


This is getting weird.

Four days after an estimated 4,000-5,000 redwiged-blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe, Ark., approximately 500 more dead birds were found lying lifeless on a quarter-mile long stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish in Louisiana.

The birds, red-winged blackbirds and starlings, were discovered on Monday, Baton Rouge's The Advocate reported. Biologists will send some of the birds to labs in Georgia and and Wisconsin to conduct autopsies and tests to try and determine the cause of death.

After examining the birds found in Arkansas, state officials concluded that the birds there had died as a result of blunt trauma, possibly caused by flying into buildings after being startled by New Year's firework celebrations.

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Edith Grove
Anyone remember the thread someone posted a couple of years ago about all the bees that were dying or disappearing?

That poster was practically saying the end of times were here, that the world's food supply was in peril because bees weren't pollinating, etc.

Last I heard the food supply is in pretty good shape in most parts of the world and honey is still relatively cheap at the supermarket.

Here's a bee update from yesterday. Doesn't sound good.

[www.huffingtonpost.com]

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[www.aolnews.com]


This is getting weird.

Four days after an estimated 4,000-5,000 redwiged-blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe, Ark., approximately 500 more dead birds were found lying lifeless on a quarter-mile long stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish in Louisiana.

The birds, red-winged blackbirds and starlings, were discovered on Monday, Baton Rouge's The Advocate reported. Biologists will send some of the birds to labs in Georgia and and Wisconsin to conduct autopsies and tests to try and determine the cause of death.

After examining the birds found in Arkansas, state officials concluded that the birds there had died as a result of blunt trauma, possibly caused by flying into buildings after being startled by New Year's firework celebrations.

Pointe Coupee Parish is nowhere near Arkansas, so only judging from the fact that the same species of birds are dying hundreds of miles apart, and no chemicals have been found so far, I'd say these birds have some kind of disease.

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Here's a bee update from yesterday. Doesn't sound good.

[www.huffingtonpost.com]

Thanks, 50A.

I'd like to hear more about this from other sources.

Heard this on NPR on my drive in to work, Edith.

Greetings from the Jersey Shore.

The Australian ............................... 5 January 2011



ROCKMAN

They truly have to quit smokin at that area...

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It's the end of days

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

i can't help but think of rachel carson's book "silent spring" referring to killing off all the birds with pesticides in the 70s (and the first book on "environmentalism")

This reminds me of the ending of Magnolia when all the frogs fall from the sky. They say that has actually happened before.

Fireworks? Really??? What happens on the 4th of July dwarfs IMMENSELY whatever fireworks may have gone off on this occasion.

I can't accept that reasoning even if it was a possibility. Birds were falling in areas where there were no buildings or fireworks.

I have had conversations with others who believe that possibly a military experiment using targeted frequency tones from satellites or even other devices seems more probable than a fireworks theory.

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The Sicilian
Fireworks? Really??? What happens on the 4th of July dwarfs IMMENSELY whatever fireworks may have gone off on this occasion.

I can't accept that reasoning even if it was a possibility. Birds were falling in areas where there were no buildings or fireworks.

I have had conversations with others who believe that possibly a military experiment using targeted frequency tones from satellites or even other devices seems more probable than a fireworks theory.

Yeah,but on the 4th of July the birds are usually up north and not in that area.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

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The Sicilian
Fireworks? Really??? What happens on the 4th of July dwarfs IMMENSELY whatever fireworks may have gone off on this occasion.

I can't accept that reasoning even if it was a possibility. Birds were falling in areas where there were no buildings or fireworks.

I have had conversations with others who believe that possibly a military experiment using targeted frequency tones from satellites or even other devices seems more probable than a fireworks theory.

Yeah,but on the 4th of July the birds are usually up north and not in that area.

Your right about that. But even more fireworks in the dense urban areas.

fireworks have been banned in some communities regardless of the date because of the negative effect it has on dogs....many jump fences to escape and become lost.