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snowmonster  
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 Posted: 06:11PM Jan 4, 2011 |
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Ok, there's been 2 reports of birds falling out of the sky in a couple U.S. states. They say the birds are dead before hitting the ground. We're not talking about just a few. . . but rather a few hundred or more. What's your view on this? I'm baffled.
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jaycr
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Posted: 07:13PM Jan 4, 2011 |
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Only heard about the one event in Arkansas, what other state had this happen?
I find it to be quite bizarre, and I'm not sure I agree with the fireworks explanation.
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snowmonster
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Posted: 09:34PM Jan 4, 2011 |
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More birds fall from sky — this time in Louisiana - this was the title of the newest story on these birds.
I agree, how could it be fireworks. They are let off at night. Birds aren't in the air at night.
I think those that are investigating this are still baffled. I'd hate to think there was some kind of airborne chemical of some kind that got to them, that was intended for American people.
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wiser_now
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Posted: 10:03PM Jan 4, 2011 |
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There's been no trace of poisons so far... at least in early tests.
It's definitely weird, but there's something to birds' group mentality. If the "lead" birds got into trouble, like ran into a high powered line in the dark after being startled by something, I can certainly see a bunch of followers doing the same.
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snowmonster
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Posted: 11:28PM Jan 4, 2011 |
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I can see the first group maybe flying into something, but to have another large group of birds drop out of the skies dead in another state. . . just too freaky.
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Posted: 03:06AM Jan 5, 2011 |
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Wasn't there also a large fish kill in a close proximity to these dying birds? I have thought about this off and on all day. The birds they were showing on TV we all red wing blackbirds. Now if something startled them into flight at night, are there never any other type of bird in the same nesting area? Why just blackbirds? That is what has me puzzled. And did it say it happened only at night? You know how we have always been told to pay attention to history so we don't make the same mistakes as those in the past? The thought did cross my mind today, the beginning of the seven plagues? I know, we would all like to act like this didn't happen, but . . .
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wiser_now
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Posted: 09:54AM Jan 5, 2011 |
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I think the plague would involve more than a few hundred birds. I'd wait a bit before heading for the fall-out shelter.
I don't think I've read about the fish... I'll have to look that one up.
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froggygg
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Posted: 10:12AM Jan 5, 2011 |
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Wow. I had no idea about this. It is very strange and a bit scary as well. Has it happened in any other states than Arkansas and Louisiana and was it all on the same day?
I need to go and do some research and read up on this.
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snowmonster
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Posted: 10:17AM Jan 5, 2011 |
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They say this sort of thing has happened before in the past, but I'm not sure when. I don't recall every hearing about it, so maybe it's been several years ago.
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idiot_original
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Posted: 06:22PM Jan 9, 2011 |
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birds do fly after dark, just not all kinds of birds.
the fireworks might make sense for birds in migration
moonlight is sufficient for flight.
starlings (which look like blackbirds) are easily startled, and nest in huge flocks, so when the spook, they flare up and out in huge numbers, close together. i go for the high power line story as a possibility, although technically it would have to arc across lines thru a close pack of birds to create a killing strike.
another possibility beginning to present itself are insecticides now available for tree and crop growth that contains systemic poisons, that is, ones that the plant itself brings up the sap line and ends up in the leaves and buds that the insects chew on.
the military tests of ground based lasers shooting metiorites out the sky is another possibility, though less likely.
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sara2011
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Posted: 01:16PM Jan 10, 2011 |
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maybe if the magnetic poles are changing (they are super sensitive) then they became confused or something  . Its mind bottling 
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idiot_original
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Posted: 09:03PM Jan 21, 2011 |
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i haven't had my mind bottled in a while, but i have had it canned...
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eamon
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Posted: 02:00PM Mar 13, 2011 |
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snowmonster wrote: They say this sort of thing has happened before in the past, but I'm not sure when. I don't recall every hearing about it, so maybe it's been several years ago.
This is probably a classic example of what's going to happen more and more simply because of the explosive growth of 24/7/365 info media like CNN, TMZ, (the web generally,) Fox News, MS-NBC etc. Stuff like this has ALWAYS happened in the past but it never stood a chance of spreading beyond a local and brief curiosity. Now, it's not just easier, but likely that this type of story will gain momentum enough to reach the whole world. Once it does, we think that because it is being reported by the big media outlets, it must have more significance than it really should. Then of course we start to see reports about the growing number of reports themselves and so on.
It's nothing but the hungry media beast feeding itself. The facts are various (and likely dull - disease, accident, weather) as to all the "whys" these things are happening. What they are not is connected in any "special" way.
As an exercise, shall we speculate on why there seem to be so many tour bus accidents on weekends these past couple of years? No disrespect to the folks in that NYC incident this weekend. Just run with the idea and see where it goes.
I could have suggested something about misbehaving celebrities, but that would be way too easy.
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idiot_original
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Posted: 04:05AM Aug 13, 2011 |
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I could have suggested something about misbehaving celebrities, but that would be way too easy.
good pun, eamon
consider: much of life is like the blind men and the elephant.
lots of speculation, little coordinated fact
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jaycr
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Posted: 04:02AM Jan 1, 2012 |
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Hmmmm, it happened again. Blackbirds
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Sneakattack
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Posted: 09:00PM Jan 9, 2012 |
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I think they're migrating and the ever increasing pollution is tiring them out faster and they're dying of oxygen debt/pollution overdose combo...
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idiot_original
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Posted: 12:51AM Jan 30, 2012 |
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might as well quote it as refer to it:
(AP) BEEBE, Ark. — Blackbirds have fallen dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town for the second New Year's Eve in a row.
KATV showed a radar image that it said showed a large mass over Beebe a few hours before midnight Saturday. The Little Rock television station reported that hundreds of birds had died.
Beebe animal control worker Hearst Taylor told KATV the reason for the bird deaths isn't yet known.
Last year, fireworks were blamed for the deaths of thousands of birds. It wasn't immediately clear if year-end celebrations are again to blame.
Beebe police imposed an impromptu fireworks ban Saturday night.
Biologists said last year's kill was caused by the birds being rousted from their roosts and flying into homes, cars, telephone poles and each other.
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Sneakattack
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Posted: 09:44PM Feb 18, 2012 |
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I read that exact article in health class
Yeah, that' proof that stress plays a part in death. Especially for birds that don't know what's going on.
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Posted: 08:20PM Feb 22, 2012 |
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When I was a kid, around 1971, in Waynesboro, VA, we had a Fall/Winter when we were finding dead birds in massive amounts, on the ground. Since we were kids and into everything, we noticed it. We brought boxes of birds home and had mass burials for them in the backyard. But, it was like, we would be walking down the street to school, and come across several dead birds in every single yard. They were EVERYWHERE! Finally our parents paid attention and realized that what we said was true.
Thing is, we never learned why this happened. I don't remember if it was more than the one year or not, but it was a definite phenomenon. Not that it was like the topic of dead birds falling out of the sky... Idk if they fell dead out of the air. It just reminded me of that and I thought I'd toss this in... for good measure.
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Posted: 11:23PM Feb 22, 2012 |
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This whole phenomenon does seem to be something that has happened quite often; you wonder if its just natures way of controlling the species. I have never heard of it happening in So Cal... except for about 3 years ago when there was a crow virus that killed off a lot of the crows... but this was explained.
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