Bloodstain Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Scott Wright, the chief of disease investigations explains, that firecrackers would have set the birds out at night, flyinng blind. It's believed that the noise startled them-they are poor night fliers-and they were in close proximity to neighborhoods, and they flew into homes and cars. They died of impact force to their bodies. That's what the National Wildlife Health Center thinkshttp://io9.com/5727758/national-wildlife-health-center-determines-cause-of-blackbird-death Except it has also happened in places like Sweden... There have also been mass bird deaths in Italy, as well as thousands of fish dying across the world in a similar fashion to that of the birds. I don't think it's a coincidence, and the firecracker hypothesis doesn't seem likely. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12135380 I'm willing to bet that all the other cases are fairly common occurrences, people just either never notice or never hear about them. Have to be unrelated anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcantica Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 They are pretty common, the media is just stirring things up and people are starting to hop on the conspiracy theory train. It might all sound funny but I don't think people should start jumping to all these crazy conclusions. I wouldn't call blackbirds stupid or suicidal. Flocking is what birds do for protection. A startled or spooked group could easily end up misguided and lead plenty of birds into obstacles or bad weather and such. For the most part they only travel by day, so if something spooked them up at night, of course they are going to hit stuff. Birds run into things or get spooked and startled and crash. Bird strikes on windows for example. They happen everyday. It generally happens to individual birds, but this time of year they are all migrated southward because of winter, hence the reason so many were found together. They probably had a flock of a couple hundred thousand or even more, so if something spooked them all up from their roosts, naturally your going to have a lot of deaths as they all started flying into stuff. What I didn't hear anywhere on the news, was if there were any live injured birds found anywhere. Obviously they all wouldn't die, you would have just as many wounded ones. That seemed kind of odd. Even when we had our huge bird kill up here, we were finding half dead birds all over the place. 2001-2006 the fourth and last legit 123 on classic123 classic/137 rs2 Native American Pride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dark Lord Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 They bashed the birds that were injured but still alive to death in order to make the story more interesting. SWAG Mayn U wanna be like me but U can't be me cuz U ain't got ma swagga on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Range_This11 Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Someone call Hitchcock. This is out of hand. "He could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenticular_J Posted January 8, 2011 Share Posted January 8, 2011 Someone call Hitchcock. This is out of hand. Alfred, no! It's too soon! Anyway, like I said, chill bros. It isn't a big deal. catch it now so you can like it before it went so mainstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surprise Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/12170571 Ermm...What? Drunk birds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IeatWindex Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Birds are weak against lightning. WE ALL KNOW THIS.Reading your post then reading your name made me lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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