Flock Of Birds Found Dead In Wilson County (TN)

[deminks]

http://www.wsmv.com/news/26379609/detail.html

LEBANON, Tenn. -- Add Middle Tennessee to the list of places where flocks of birds have shown up dead. Earlier in the week, birds were found dead in Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas.

Now, more that 100 dead birds were recently found in Wilson County, causing the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to investigate.

A resident notified the agency Tuesday afternoon after he spotted dozens of dead birds along Highway 70 north in Lebanon a few days ago.

“It’s kind of a strange, odd thing. It plays into some of the things that have been happening in other places,” said Lt. Jim Hooper of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.


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[virgogal]

1. This is really,really strange----and scary.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. Reminds of how animals are so much more sensitive to impending natural disaster

Like when I lived in CA, and had a parakeet...He would commence squawking and raising a fuss many minutes before an earthquake tremor would roll our way.

Is this all happening because we need to pay attention to something coming? (no, not end times BS)

Am still wondering of the huge amounts of Corexit in the waters, inland and in the air, the killing of the gulf and it's sea beds, and the climate change/ocean currents/gulf stream are creating this massive die off of fish and foul.

[xiamiam]

29. my cat has warned me of earthquakes..nt

[Timbuk3]

6. Canary in a coal mine?

Frogs and bumble bees, too.

[Botany]

2. Something is happening

These die offs are not normal and that deaths tend to be one particular type of species @ a time
is very perplexing. Add this to fish kills in Arkansas and Chesapeake Bay that were species specific
too and my ecological thinking mind is very worried.

Reports of recent die offs in other countries are out there too. In Italy it was turtle doves.

[snagglepuss]

8. What I'm surprised at is the number of posts that dismiss those who

express concern, to be concerned seems tantamount to being irrational and/or hysterical. It sounds like you are not buying into the fireworks hypothesis?

[Botany]

12. Boy, I just don't know what is behind these die offs

But the fact all of the die offs tend to be species specific and very localized is what
has me puzzled.

"It sounds like you are not buying into the fireworks hypothesis?"

Ever hear of big bird or fish die offs after the 4th of July?

[snagglepuss]

15. No I haven't . What has given a sense of creepiness to these events are

statements coming from scientists no less that fireworks are a factor. You expect to hear something like that in a scifi movie. I was wondering if it has something to do with the magnetic poles flipping.

[Botany]

19. If it is the magnetic poles flipping (which I doubt) then we all will be dead.

Because the electromagnetic belts around the world connected by the magnetic poles
protect us from much of the solar radiation ..... the fossil records show that during times
of magnetic pole shifting there were large scale die offs of different forms of life.

I think what ever is doing some of this is man made. The damage to the internal organs
of the birds is strange too.

But I am still very much in the dark about what is happening in these cases.

[xiamiam]

33. please explain damage to internal organs..?

[walldude]

24. Yup it's the species thing that is really puzzling

creepy as all hell too.

[butterfly77]

36. +1

kick

[thecrow]

21. Do you have a link to the Chesapeake Bay fish kill?

That's local to me. I hadn't heard of it.

[deminks]

22. Here is a link

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/outdoors/bs-sp-bay-fish-kill0106-20110105,0,6662746.story

[lonestarnot]

26. Japan swans and cranes. :(

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/01/03/Japan-on-alert-after-finding-dead-birds/UPI-41861294114121/

[snagglepuss]

28. I am wondering if you've read anything since you posted this that

that sheds more light on this? Have you heard about 100 tons of dead sardines off Brazil?

[Botany]

34. I have been in touch w/ some friends who are ecologists

One explained (partially) some of the bird deaths but neither had
a real answer to what is happening .... as per the dead fish in Brazil
they say it was an algae bloom and those happen all the time around
urban area / sea interfaces. Man made but not connected to the other
die offs.

[snagglepuss]

35. Your reply is much appreciated. Thanks.

:hi:

[scarletwoman]

3. Very disturbing. It makes me wonder if there's some cloud of toxic gas floating around in the lower

levels of the atmosphere. Did some chemical company or refinery in the region release some particularly noxious stuff out of their smokestacks over the New Year holiday when no one was paying attention?

sw

[panader0]

9. Sun spots/solar flares?

When it was just Arkansas it was thought to be a pollutant, but this thing is going global.

[scarletwoman]

13. That seems highly unlikely. There have been solar flares & sunspots for as long as there's been

a sun. By what mechanism would they suddenly prove fatal to select species?

It seems to me that it has to be something originating within the terrestrial biosphere.

[xiamiam]

30. or methane.?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. must be the famous Chemtrails!!!

[Old Troop]

7. Do you think it might be the Rapture and we just got it wrong?

[deminks]

10. lol, the arrogance of the human race got us left behind?

Possible.

[mmonk]

16. .

:spray:

[felix_numinous]

11. deleted

[BrklynLiberal]

14. Wow...WTF is going on?

[Flubadubya]

17. In Shreveport, La. today too... reported on the local news.

Over 100 dead birds just showed up on the streets - unknown cause. :shrug:

[doc03]

18. Tennessee? Watch Hannity try and blame it on Al Gore n/t

[Raschel]

20. I don't get the highway thing. Does it have something to do with towers or electricity?

[greyl]

23. Other instances from 1896, 1904, 1941, 2004, etc..

Links here:

www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/12/22/2007-12-22_flock_of_birds_mysteriously_die_in_si.html

www.ny1.com/?SecID=1000&ArID=77172

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1256840/Mystery-scores-starlings-fall-sky-lay-dying--single-garden.html

and a collection of 12 here:

Updated: 5:56 AM GMT on January 05, 2011

Bird Falls

Apropos of the recent bird fall reported from Beebe, Arkansas this list of prior such events may be of interest. The list was provided by Prof. Randall Cerveny of Arizona State University. Comments and suggestions as to the plausible cause of this phenomena would be welcome!

I quote this list from Randy:

"I have in my archive of weird and unusual weather a list of twelve massive bird falls:


1. Baton Rouge LA: July 1896:
On Friday morning last early risers in the little capital witnessed a peculiar sight in the shape of a shower of birds that fell from a clear sky, literally cluttering the streets of birds that fell from a clear sky, literally cluttering the streets of the city. There were wild ducks, catbirds, woodpeckers, and many birds of strange plumage, some of them resembling canaries, but all dead, falling in heaps along the thoroughfares, the singular phenomenon attracting many spectators and causing much comment. The most plausible theory as to the strange windfall is that the birds were driven inland by the recent storm on the Florida coast, the force of the current of air and the sudden change of temperature causing death to many of the feathered creatures when they reached Baton Rouge. Some idea of the extent of the shower may be gathered from the estimate that out on National Avenue alone the children of the neighborhood collected 200 birds.

continue...

I think an important fact to remember is that there is more than 1 cause for these instances of bird falls. There's more than one way to ground a flock of birds, iow.

[CountAllVotes]

25. thanks for this info.

Very interesting - I had not heard of these events.

Still the same, I do believe that we cannot ignore what is going on.

You name isolated events, not several large events in very short period of time.

:scared: nonetheless

:dem:

[greyl]

27. Right, there's no reason to ignore the events. In fact, a close and careful look is in order. nt

[xiamiam]

31. are there instances which compare to this..in a one week period..globally?

[pintobean]

32. I've got it all figured out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KZMg-fvn-s