A major phenomena has occurred over the West Australian coastal town of Esperance.
Several thousands of birds, of many different species, have mysteriously dropped dead out of the sky.
Investigations by scientists and vetinarians in the West Australian capital of Perth have failed to discover the cause of the mass deaths.
The Australian newspaper says all the residents of flood-devastated Esperance know, is that their 'dawn chorus' of singing birds is missing.
The main casualties are wattle birds, yellow-throated miners, new holland honeyeaters and singing honeyeaters, although some dead crows, hawks and pigeons have also been found.
Wildlife officers, say The Australian, are baffled by the 'catastrophic' event, which the Department of Environment and Conservation said began well before a freak storm last week.
On Monday, Esperance, 725 kilometres southeast of Perth, was declared a natural disaster zone.
District nature conservation co-ordinator Mike Fitzgerald said the first reports of birds dropping dead in people's yards came in three weeks ago. More than 500 deaths had since been notified. But the calls stopped suddenly last week, reportedly because no birds were left.
'It's very substantial. We estimate several thousand birds are dead, although we don't have a clear number because of the large areas of bushland,' Mr Fitzgerald said.
Birds Australia, the nation's main bird conservation group, said it had not heard of a similar occurrence. 'Not on that scale, and all at the same time, and also the fact that it's several different species,' chief executive Graeme Hamilton said. 'You'd have to call that a most unusual event and one that we'd all have to be concerned about.'
The state Department of Agriculture and Food, which conducted the autopsies, has almost ruled out an infectious process.
Acting chief veterinary officer Fiona Sunderman said there were no leads yet on which of potentially hundreds of toxins might be responsible. Some birds were seen convulsing as they died.
Michelle Crisp was one of the first to contact the DEC after finding dozens of dead birds on her property one morning.
She told The Australian she normally had hundreds of birds in her yard, but that she and a neighbour counted 80 dead birds in one day.
'It went to the point where we had nothing, not a bird,' she said.
'It was like a moonscape, just horrible. But the frightening thing for us, we didn't find any more birds after that. We literally didn't have any birds left to die.'
| By Anonymous, 01-09-07, 07:15 PM |
Several thousand birds mysteriously drop dead in AustraliaSimilar stories here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070109/us_nm/austin_closure_dc_5
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-08-austin-birds_x.htm?csp=34
In all three articles, pigeons were among the dead birds. Could there be a connection? |
| By westhill, 01-09-07, 10:43 PM |
hmmmmmmmsame thing happened in Austin, Texas, U.S......coincedence? |
| By Anonymous, 01-10-07, 12:29 AM |
Birds...Armageddon? |
| By grantnw, 01-10-07, 03:08 AM |
strange days indeedwell I’m concerned that humanity is on a fast track to destruction, but not yet. this is a mystery! |
| By KMD, 01-10-07, 03:48 AM |
Dead BirdsHi,
More dead birds, this one is in Idaho, USA.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061214/us_nm/ducks_dc_1 |
| By looselips (digg), 01-10-07, 06:34 AM |
Re: TOO LateTOO Late
“Get ready”, “end is near”, “seven signs”, “vision”, “end is very close”, “destroyed our paradise”, “damage is done”, “cannot reverse it”, " Apocolypto”
These are all signs of a person who has been defeated.
You are obviously a religious person, all these sayings are things you have been brainwashed, not only to believe, but you have been given the duty to spread this nonsense to any and every idiot willing to listen.
You claim your god is a “loving savior” but you cannot defend the horror of the old testament, from the people and the Gods, and you look forward to the end?
What is wrong with you?
Why do you wish all to suffer, to prove you will be saved?
What if you are not?
What if you chose one of the wrong Gods?
What if this is your only life, there isn’t a second, and you cannot live forever as a spirit?
You are defeated because there is no hope for you, or other theists who think the end is near for another reason.
1999 is over and past, time to stop wasting time and spreading fear, when we all know how often the “Apocolypse” should have happened by now.
IT IS A FAIRY TALE!!
If you do not have a valid opinion that could help, speculate, or explain with valid and provable fact, then STFU.
Get back in the closet and keep your religious ancient mythology out of the public forum.
Wishes, horseshoes, prayer, and god are no different, they offer the same amount of change against chance. The truth is they all have the same outcome when influencing anything, they offer and prove absolutely nothing.
Journal your prayers/wishes if you do not believe me.
I have no reason to lie about how your lies are more valid because everyone who taught you must have been right.
If theist feel that they are against the world, they should look at and study the world around them, they should see if others have stopped believing in make believe, then maybe it is time they reevaluate their beliefs, do some research, and finally see what we all see.
Everyone is born an atheist.
When you dismiss all other gods, you prove how easy it is, for us to dismiss yours.
I just believe in one god less then you do.
looselips- Anti-theist |
| By Donnarama, 01-10-07, 08:17 AM |
Something is strange...who is there to seriously talk to?I don’t know what it is in the air but some time last year,I began to notice"death"was absolutley everywhere.I think there is either a sort of cycle in progress or ...I don’t know. |
| By ibn, 01-10-07, 12:45 PM |
dead birdsthe end is not near, but the begining is around the corner, with out birds there’s new life a-coming.
the ski is not falling, the world is raising, soon the sun will start to come up in the west to south west, all hunmaniods will be left handed.
i have spoken ;;;;;;; |
| By Crystalfortune, 01-10-07, 01:04 PM |
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| By earthsista, 01-10-07, 01:52 PM |
Time will tellTo looselips, self-proclaimed know-it-all,
what makes your opinion/beliefs any more substantial than that of any one of us? the fact that you feel you must personally attack those with opposing views damages your argument and shows a lack of integrity.
you don’t have the answers, none of us do, but time will tell. open your mind. we have ALL been brainwashed, what do you think our education and media are? certainly not tools for gaining knowledge.
it’s not surprising that birds are falling form the sky, considering all the filth we churn out into our ecosystems... |
| By KDZ, 01-10-07, 03:57 PM |
Radiation?????????just an opinion,but it is kinda crazy how different birds around the world have just been dying.well i believe in ufo’s and with just a wild guess, i would say it has something to do with radiation.......just a guess.whatever it is,its weird. |
| By boog le boo, 01-10-07, 04:15 PM |
Bird in hand worth two in the bushI think it’s all Bush’s falt!!! |
| By Anonymous, 01-10-07, 05:40 PM |
| Along with the Australian birds, the Austin birds, and the Idaho owls, there
was a mass death of ducks in the U.S. on Dec. 14. See
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14186968.htm
Radiation is something to investigate. A biophysicist friend of mine told me that the increase in background radiation is the most serious threat to human life and reproduction, but it is never reported.
Whatever it is, 2007 is turning out to be a hell of a Fortean year. |
| By RogerZ, 01-10-07, 06:13 PM |
Ever see the movie In the the movie “The Core” the same thing happened, birds dropped dead from the sky. The reason was the earth’s core stopped and the earth’s magnetic field started to collapse. This caused spides and drops in the field. Birds use the magnetic field to navagate, so naturally they just flew right into buildings and killed themselves!!
:)
RogerZ |
| By Anonymous, 01-10-07, 07:11 PM |
| Has anyone considered the possibility that terrorists could be testing some biological weapons at low levels? Due to the report saying some birds were convulsing when they were dying; seems like it would be some sort of toxin that is airborne. |
| By n00bb00b, 01-10-07, 09:55 PM |
hey i have a theoryinvisible UFO’s like in the movie signs...possibility? maybe. |
| By theist, 01-11-07, 04:08 AM |
most don't even know what armageddon isNo I don’t believe that these are signs of the end of the world but I can rise to the obvious questions that looselips has anytime and fully explain my God, since he seems to be searching so hard for answers =)
These three, at least that we know of right off the top of our heads without digging further, are obviously related, multiple species of birds in multiple regions of the world all in a matter of a few hours. If man isn’t at the center of this somehow, even in a Tesla-ish type of way, I would be very surprised. |
| By Conspiracy Theorist, 01-11-07, 08:12 PM |
What is it? I recall watching a movie, I think it was called “The Core” I could be wrong though. It dealt with the core of the earth, the magnetic field and its affect on the earth. In the beginning, birds began flying into buildings, dropping out of the sky...that sort of thing, due to the failure of the magnetic field that they use as a compass. I don’t know how convulsing would fit in at all, but these stories reminded me of the beginning of this “apocolyptic” type movie. Oh, FYI, in the end the heroes travel to the center of the earth, fix whatever it was that we, as mankind, had screwed up, and most of the people lived happily ever after. Here’s Hoping! |
| By ajaxx, 01-11-07, 11:53 PM |
AllI have have tasted my own cum, is that gross?
Just before I cum I like to taste the precum, salty but good. |
| By WTF, 01-12-07, 01:05 AM |
"Too Late" is gayOMG... who is this gay " Too Late person?.... what the hell.... mhm... the end is near i am sure god you are so retarded... just shut up |
| By smartman, 01-12-07, 07:13 AM |
things more complicated than they seemhttp://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/ultimate-warrior-robert-duncan-ofinioan |
| By Justaguess, 01-12-07, 05:50 PM |
Common linkIt’s quite possible that all of this is related to the wet weather. Certain molds are lethal when ingested. Since most birds eat grain and seed then this could be the culprit. All areas that this have happened have been abnormally wet. Also bacteria thrive in wet humid conditions. Since, from what I have read, they have for the most part ruled out Bird flu then these 2 would be my first choices. It’s January and raining right now in Northern Indiana. Not very normal. Blame global warming and us. Not God. |
| By Believer, 01-13-07, 07:44 AM |
TruthIt is true.. the end is near.
The anti-christ (Bush) is amongst us.
Demons walk the earth (Criss Angel).
2012 the year of chaos and destruction.
When the magnetic poles of the earth
flip upside down causing the earth
to spin backwards....
Sun riseth in the West and sets in the
East...
And the continents will move,
Supervolcanic eruptions...
Super-tsunamis toppling skyscrapers...
Super-earthquakes that swallow us all.
Good luck to those few who survive
To rebuild a better place...
One
|
| By Sileno, 01-14-07, 05:07 PM |
My dead birdI had an African grey parrot for 17 tears. One day it just fell off its perch in the middle of the night and died. I never thought to check on the other birds!
sileno was on of the Greek satyrs who was drunk all the time and chased the nymphs. The legends don’t say what he did when he found them.
Sileno. |
| By Nazi Party, 01-14-07, 05:36 PM |
Birds DieBush has nothing to do with birds dropping dead, that idiot can’t even spell U.F.O. Many compare Bush to Hitler, come on Hitler took a country the size of Wisconson and almost took the world, Bush invaded Iraq the size of Wisconson and lost a war to a bunch of towel heads. |
| By Sharilyn, 01-15-07, 05:55 PM |
Radiation, Terror Attack, UFO's???This bird thing has me concerned. I think it’s probably radiation. It just seems to make sense. Does the ozone hole cause radiation?? Where else can I read about this.
At first I thought it was terrorism but would it be so widespread? The same with UFO’s. |
| By Sharilyn, 01-15-07, 05:58 PM |
Radiation, Terror Attack, UFO's???This bird thing has me concerned. I think it’s probably radiation. It just seems to make sense. Does the ozone hole cause radiation?? Where else can I read about this.
At first I thought it was terrorism but would it be so widespread? The same with UFO’s. |
| By Sharilyn, 01-15-07, 05:58 PM |
Radiation, Terror Attack, UFO's???This bird thing has me concerned. I think it’s probably radiation. It just seems to make sense. Does the ozone hole cause radiation?? Where else can I read about this.
At first I thought it was terrorism but would it be so widespread? The same with UFO’s. |
| By Wide Awake, 01-17-07, 11:57 AM |
My two centsChemtrails. |
| By Wide Awake, 01-17-07, 11:58 AM |
My two centsChemtrails were the culprit. Not contrails-Chemtrails... |
| By Internet empowerment, 01-19-07, 10:47 AM |
War on birdsThis is what really happened. A bird was flying along and got sucked into an air intake of a jet causing the engine to malfunction and the jet crashed. a few hours later president bush declared “War on Birds” and has been sending crack teams of seals to take em out. |
| By Internet empowerment, 01-19-07, 10:47 AM |
War on birdsThis is what really happened. A bird was flying along and got sucked into an air intake of a jet causing the engine to malfunction and the jet crashed. a few hours later president bush declared “War on Birds” and has been sending crack teams of seals to take em out. |
| By Internet empowerment, 01-19-07, 10:48 AM |
War on birdsThis is what really happened. A bird was flying along and got sucked into an air intake of a jet causing the engine to malfunction and the jet crashed. a few hours later president bush declared “War on Birds” and has been sending crack teams of seals to take em out. |
| By Internet empowerment, 01-19-07, 10:48 AM |
War on birdsThis is what really happened. A bird was flying along and got sucked into an air intake of a jet causing the engine to malfunction and the jet crashed. a few hours later president bush declared “War on Birds” and has been sending crack teams of seals to take em out. |
| By idea, 01-27-07, 10:52 PM |
| what about the nuclear bomb testing the asian people just did? |
| By Anonymous, 02-16-07, 03:17 AM |
Birds & the BeesBirds dropping dead.. honey bees are abandoning there hives and no one knows the extent of damage to the hives until it warms up. Add on a big stink in NYC and the fact that gas is burping up from the ocean floor... yep.. sounds like cycles are in motion to me as well. |
| By Anonymous, 02-16-07, 03:18 AM |
Birds & the BeesBirds dropping dead.. honey bees are abandoning there hives and no one knows the extent of damage to the hives until it warms up. Add on a big stink in NYC and the fact that gas is burping up from the ocean floor... yep.. sounds like cycles are in motion to me as well. |
| By Anonymous, 03-11-07, 03:55 AM |
Global warming is a myth and the poles are starting to shit.Global warming is a myth, the poles are starting to shift. This is probably the start of the natual phenonmenon that comes upon the earth ever so often. The thing that destroyed Atlantis if you believe in that once great city.
Nature is going to be the first to recognise it. Look at our planet. Areas that were normally cold are warmer every year. I live in Canada and we did not even see snow this Chrismas or last.
The frogs are missing also. It’s just like how dogs and cats are said to run off before earthquakes. (Don’t know if it’s true), but that could be why nature is going all batty. I think the poles are going to shift. I agree with the theory that it’s a natural occuring phenomenon, and the governments of the world are doing nothing to prepare the people. Again what could they do? The truth would only cause panic.
We will see more in the years to come. |
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| By wildone, 07-12-07, 03:09 AM |
Science is warning us?I just seen a movie about the subject of yes Armegedon. But the movie surrounds the shift of the polarity of the Earth. Think of the whales beaching themselves and yesterday the giant Octupus. Thats not normal! They navagate through the magnetic fields of the earth. |
| By wildone, 07-12-07, 03:11 AM |
Science is warning us?I just seen a movie about the subject of yes Armegedon. But the movie surrounds the shift of the polarity of the Earth. Think of the whales beaching themselves and yesterday the giant Octupus. Thats not normal! They navagate through the magnetic fields of the earth. |
| By wildone, 07-12-07, 03:11 AM |
Science is warning us?I just seen a movie about the subject of yes Armegedon. But the movie surrounds the shift of the polarity of the Earth. Think of the whales beaching themselves and yesterday the giant Octupus. Thats not normal! They navagate through the magnetic fields of the earth. |
| By wildone, 07-12-07, 03:13 AM |
Science is warning us?I just seen a movie about the subject of yes Armegedon. But the movie surrounds the shift of the polarity of the Earth. Think of the whales beaching themselves and yesterday the giant Octupus. Thats not normal! They navagate through the magnetic fields of the earth. |
| By wildone, 07-12-07, 03:14 AM |
Science is warning us?I just seen a movie about the subject of yes Armegedon. But the movie surrounds the shift of the polarity of the Earth. Think of the whales beaching themselves and yesterday the giant Octupus. Thats not normal! They navagate through the magnetic fields of the earth. |
| By EMR scientist, 07-13-07, 01:31 PM |
HAARP and other electromagnetic radiation transmittersAnd what about HAARP and other pulsed electromagnetic radiation transmitters like several “over-the-horizon radars” from both the US, Russia, Europe, etc. (with or without scalar (longitudinal) waves) ?
The opinion of the European Parliament (Committee on the Environment), in an approved European Parliament resolution on HAARP (and others) was that
-HAARP was a serious threat to global environment and human health.
-the European Commission should urge the US, Russia and all other countries involved with these type of weapons to desist, and to devise and international treaty to ban them.
-there should be an international ban on chemical, electrical and sound weapons weapons that can manipulate the human brain.
....
Just read about HAARP in
http://www.policestateplanning.com/briefings.htm#european_parliament
and
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/INT208A.html
and certainly
http://www.earthpulse.com/src/category.asp?catid=1
and also
http://www.cheniere.org/books/analysis/history.htm
(some scientists, I’m not sure if this is true) say that the Russians have the most evolved transmitters, with even strange “scalar” waves).
Birds and other animals could be casualties from the directed beams from these special transmitters. I’m not going to say that this is the cause, but I know a lot from the capabilities of these transmitters and it seems a possible cause that should be investigated (if it is possible... as even the European Commission could not investigate HAARP because it is a military project...).
Best regards,
An informed and concerned biologist.
|
| By troubled, 03-15-08, 04:14 PM |
chemtrailsI have attempted to talk to our powers that be and found an ignorance to even look further than their own noses...and so we chase our tails |
| By troubled, 03-15-08, 04:17 PM |
chemtrailsI have attempted to talk to our powers that be and found an ignorance to even look further than their own noses...and so we chase our tails |
| By silverface, 09-15-07, 11:05 PM |
tennessee birddsi just remembered it happening here in Nashville Tennessee a few years ago. I can’t remember the area....but tons of dead birds just everywhere. |
| By silverface, 09-15-07, 11:05 PM |
tennessee birddsi just remembered it happening here in Nashville Tennessee a few years ago. I can’t remember the area....but tons of dead birds just everywhere. |
| By Internet surfer, 11-10-07, 04:10 AM |
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| By mr pakki, 12-05-07, 10:52 AM |
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| By mr pakki, 12-05-07, 10:54 AM |
birdsjust eat em |
| By angel, 03-03-09, 05:25 AM |
NZ birds falling dead 2009 1/3/2009 small nz sparrows dropped dead by the hundreds in our north island city New Plymouth which was unexplainable. 2/3/2009 more sparrows dropped dead from the sky again but on the opposite side of nz’s North Island in a city called Tauranga down cameron rd the tiny little sparrows littered the street. And to top it off, today the 3/3/2009 our suberb of Papamoa in the nZ city of Tauranga our beach was littered with dead dolphins, puffer fish and other species of fish were found dead this morning, so our beach was closed off. What is happening? I even seen a News Paper article this morning of the 194 pilot whales that were stranded on king Island in Australia and only 54 pilot whales survived. There is something very odd about these events that are happening so very close together, and to include to this, I was travelling home from a friends place and thousands of frogs were all over the road trying to get to the other side, I had to stop my car as I didnt want to run any of them over. I believe something is not right in our world. There are so many theories, But I do believe our governments will pull up any bullshit story and feed it to anyone who will listen, so as to not have a chain of panic happen amonst its people. I believe also that they have a fair idea of whats happening and they arent prepared to tell us whats really happening with the birds and fish, dolphins and whales that are dying all around the world. feed back please anyone? |
| By Anonymous, 01-11-07, 09:27 PM |
comman sensenot god or the end of the world just another human fuckup!! |
| By Get ready humans the end is near and these are the seven signs. , 01-10-07, 02:21 AM |
TOO LateI am not religious but I am spiritial and my vision is that the end is very close.We have destroyed our paradise. The damage is done we cannot reverse it. Thanks to some humans this is our Apocolypto. |
| By Pontotoc Bill, 01-17-07, 03:15 AM |
|
looselips (digg);14087: TOO Late
“Get ready”, “end is near”, “seven signs”, “vision”, “end is very close”, “destroyed our paradise”, “damage is done”, “cannot reverse it”, " Apocolypto”
These are all signs of a person who has been defeated.
You are obviously a religious person, all these sayings are things you have been brainwashed, not only to believe, but you have been given the duty to spread this nonsense to any and every idiot willing to listen.
You claim your god is a “loving savior” but you cannot defend the horror of the old testament, from the people and the Gods, and you look forward to the end?
What is wrong with you?
Why do you wish all to suffer, to prove you will be saved?
What if you are not?
What if you chose one of the wrong Gods?
What if this is your only life, there isn’t a second, and you cannot live forever as a spirit?
You are defeated because there is no hope for you, or other theists who think the end is near for another reason.
1999 is over and past, time to stop wasting time and spreading fear, when we all know how often the “Apocolypse” should have happened by now.
IT IS A FAIRY TALE!!
If you do not have a valid opinion that could help, speculate, or explain with valid and provable fact, then STFU.
Get back in the closet and keep your religious ancient mythology out of the public forum.
Wishes, horseshoes, prayer, and god are no different, they offer the same amount of change against chance. The truth is they all have the same outcome when influencing anything, they offer and prove absolutely nothing.
Journal your prayers/wishes if you do not believe me.
I have no reason to lie about how your lies are more valid because everyone who taught you must have been right.
If theist feel that they are against the world, they should look at and study the world around them, they should see if others have stopped believing in make believe, then maybe it is time they reevaluate their beliefs, do some research, and finally see what we all see.
Everyone is born an atheist.
When you dismiss all other gods, you prove how easy it is, for us to dismiss yours.
I just believe in one god less then you do.
looselips- Anti-theist
The only thing of value you posted is:
If you do not have a valid opinion that could help, speculate, or explain with valid and provable fact, then STFU.
Get back in the closet and keep your religious ancient mythology out of the public forum.
You have no valid opinion, only an opinion. You have no valid, provable fact to back it, so take your own advice.
Remember, opinions are like anal sphincters. Everyone has one and virtually ALL stink. Your opinion stinks, so get into the closet and keep your religious mythology to yourself. Your belief that no God exists cannot be proven, so it is a religious myth in your words. |
| By Hawk Eye, 01-10-07, 04:08 PM |
The sky has fallen!!The sky has fallen because the Democrates control the house and the goverment,,, Hey you have to blame some one!! |
| By Rollintightandfat, 01-11-07, 04:46 PM |
DEATHThe end is coming but no one knows when or how. Lets all hope that if it does within this year that mass histeria doesnt plague the world at the same time. |
| By yukon, 01-11-07, 10:18 PM |
Jerk!
Unregistered;14192: not god or the end of the world just another human
So present your evidence potty-mouth! You seem to have a ll the answers. |
| By yukon, 01-13-07, 12:08 AM |
| Ajaxx you are a retarded pig. |
| By yukon, 01-13-07, 12:06 AM |
Justaguess
Justaguess;14257: It’s quite possible that all of this is related to the wet weather. Certain molds are lethal when ingested. Since most birds eat grain and seed then this could be the culprit. All areas that this have happened have been abnormally wet. Also bacteria thrive in wet humid conditions. Since, from what I have read, they have for the most part ruled out Bird flu then these 2 would be my first choices. It’s January and raining right now in Northern Indiana. Not very normal. Blame global warming and us. Not God.
Mother nature is bigger than man and much more creative. That we or anyone believes man has power over her domain is incredulous. |
| By yukon, 01-13-07, 08:12 AM |
Believer..of what?
Believer;14294: It is true.. the end is near.
The anti-christ (Bush) is amongst us.
Demons walk the earth (Criss Angel).
2012 the year of chaos and destruction.
When the magnetic poles of the earth
flip upside down causing the earth
to spin backwards....
Sun riseth in the West and sets in the
East...
And the continents will move,
Supervolcanic eruptions...
Super-tsunamis toppling skyscrapers...
Super-earthquakes that swallow us all.
Good luck to those few who survive
To rebuild a better place...
One
Nice imagination! You ought to be making movies. You’re wasting your time and talents here. |
| By waltky, 04-12-07, 01:39 AM |
| Happening off the U.S. west coast too...
:eek:
Seabird deaths puzzle scientists
April 11, 2007 — For a third straight year, seabirds have been starving to death and washing up on beaches in California, Oregon and Washington state.
]Scientists are at a loss explain the phenomenon, The Seattle Times reported. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials found 175 dead auklets and 68 dead puffins over a three-day period in late March near the mouth of the south shore of the Columbia River. Auklets and puffins have also died in record numbers in coastal areas in Washington’s Long Beach.
Roy Lowe, project leader for the Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex, said the dead birds are a “kind of bellwether” for what’s going on in the ocean. The birds have no body fat and there’s nothing in their digestive systems.
Scientists can’t say for sure if climate change explains the deaths. But oceanographer Bill Peterson said warm oceans have caused the food web to be “unproductive." Peterson says summer should bring colder water that will “kick-start” the food chain.
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| By waltky, 04-29-07, 08:04 AM |
| Other sea life affected too...
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Algae sickens hundreds of animals
April 28, 2007 - A MORASS of toxic ocean algae swamping sections of California’s coastline has sickened hundreds of birds, sea lions and dolphins, environmentalists said today.
]Animal protection agencies have reported a sharp increase in fatalities and illnesses amongst wildlife because of the thick blooms of algae that have appeared in the state’s coastal waters. The International Bird Rescue Research Centre in San Pedro compared the environmental impact of the algae to an oil spill, saying several species of animals had been affected.
“I have been doing this work for 35 years and I have never seen anything like this as far as the number of species affected, other than an oil spill,'' IBRRC director Jay Holcomb said. “We have very serious concerns about what is happening to seabirds, and how it may affect populations.''
Animals are being sickened by domoic acid, a naturally-occurring microscopic algae. Birds and sea mammals ingest the toxin by consuming fish and shellfish which consume the algae. Although algae blooms appear every year, environmentalists say this year’s crop is unusually thick and appears to be carrying higher concentrations of the acid, making it deadlier than normal.
More [url: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21635567-23109,00.html[/url]
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| By waltky, 04-30-07, 12:12 PM |
| Whales declining too...
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Pacific whale decline 'a mystery'
Monday, 30 April 2007, Grey whales along the Pacific coast of North America appear to be in distress, with not enough food available.
]Grey whales in the eastern Pacific appear to be in some trouble, with the cause far from clear, scientists say. Researchers with the conservation group Earthwatch found that whales are arriving in their breeding grounds off the Mexican coast malnourished.
The same thing happened just after the 1997/8 El Nino event, which warmed the waters and depleted food stocks. Scientists are not sure whether the current decline is climate related or part of a natural predator-prey cycle.
“We’re not really sure what is going on now," said William Megill, a member of the Earthwatch team who also holds posts at Bath University in the UK and the University of British Columbia in Canada. “We certainly saw in Mexico this winter a very large number of starving whales," he told the BBC News website. “There is currently an El Nino building, and this is a worry."
No fat [url: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/6599805.stm[/url]
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| By waltky, 12-23-07, 09:25 AM |
| Birds droppin' from the sky...
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Flock of birds mysteriously killed in N.Y.
Dec. 22, 2007 — Experts are trying to determine what killed a flock of purple martins that fell from the sky in New York City.
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The birds scared residents of a Staten Island neighborhood as they dropped, The New York Daily News reported. “It was like Alfred Hitchcock’s 'The Birds,'" said Donna Toti. “Birds were just falling out of the sky. They would land, lie on the ground, flap and die."
Marc Zurlo, another resident, said he saw birds flying erratically, “as if they were drunk," before they fell. Officials said that some of the birds appeared to have died in mid-air.
The Health Department collected the carcasses to be tested. The birds appeared to be all the same species and members of a single flock, suggesting that they may have eaten something lethal. Zurlo said that another theory in the neighborhood was that the birds had come into contact with ammonia.
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| By waltky, 02-16-08, 12:26 AM |
| Bats too...
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Why are thousands of bats dying in New York?
Thurs., Feb. 14, 2008 - Mysterious ‘white nose syndrome’ spreading at alarming rate
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Bats in New York and Vermont are mysteriously dying off by the thousands, often with a white ring of fungus around their noses, and scientists in hazmat suits are crawling into dank caves to find out why. “White nose syndrome," as the killer has been dubbed, is spreading at an alarming rate, with researchers calling it the gravest threat in memory to bats in the U.S. “This is definitely unprecedented," said Lori Pruitt, an endangered-species biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Bloomington, Ind. “The hugest concern at this point is that we do not know what it is."
A significant loss of bats is chilling in itself to wildlife experts. But —like the mysterious mass die-offs around the country of bees that pollinate all sorts of vital fruits and vegetables — the bat deaths could have economic implications. Bats feed on insects that can damage dozens of crops, including wheat and apples. “Without large populations of bats, there would certainly be an impact on agriculture," said Barbara French of Bat Conservation International of Austin, Texas. White nose syndrome has afflicted at least four species of hibernating bats, spreading from a cluster of four caves near Albany last winter to more than a dozen caverns up to 130 miles away.
Alan Hicks, a wildlife biologist with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, said he fears a catastrophic collapse of the region’s bat population and is urgently enlisting experts around the country to find the cause. It is not even clear if the fungus around the bats' noses — something scientists say they have never seen before — is a cause or a symptom. It may be a sign the bats are too sick to groom themselves, said Beth Buckles, a veterinary pathologist at Cornell University.
More [url: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23169737/[/url]
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| By waltky, 05-06-08, 08:10 AM |
| Remember Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds?
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Attack of the killer ravens
4th May 2008 : Flocks are suddenly slaughtering lambs - what is going on?
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High in the darkening sky, a flock of enormous ravens swoop and swirl - narrow black wings stretched wide, heads protruding forward and huge hairy beaks scything through the air. Every few minutes they let out deep, throaty, honking calls as they soar effortlessly, circling around until, finally, they spot their prey and swoop.
But forget dormice, voles or even small furry rabbits; these sinister looking birds are feasting on something far larger - newborn lambs. And instead of hanging around for a few discarded bones or a forgotten carcass to pick and claw at, they’ve started killing live farm animals - by pecking them to death, in horrific scenes reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds, turned by Alfred Hitchcock into one of the most chilling movies of all time.
Throughout Britain, traumatised farmers have reported a sudden and disturbing rise in the number of livestock being attacked by ravens. Farmer John Kirk, 50, from Nethybridge, near Aviemore, has lost more than 40 animals in the past few weeks. “It’s like something out of a horror film. They are horrible, horrible birds. They see the young lambs and just fly down and help themselves," he said.
[url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=563931&in_page_id=1770: MORE[/url]
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