Rain of dead birds in Arkansas, Beebe? Explanations?

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Rain of dead birds in Arkansas, Beebe? Explanations?




by Christophe » 03/01/11, 15:39

Natural weather phenomenon (hail, cold, strong winds ...) or "human" pollution (fireworks, chemicals, military experience ...)?

Another event that risks boiling the imagination of some ... (follow my gaze)

I do not believe at all in the thesis of fireworks ... except maybe the chemical pollution that results but in this case, birds should fall every 1st of the year ... which is not not the case!

In Beebe, Arkansas, in the southern United States, a mysterious rain of thousands of dead birds leaves the authorities perplexed.

On New Years Eve, 4000 to 5000 birds fell from the sky. They are, for the most part, red-winged blackbirds, which littered the streets of the small town of Beepe.

Authorities do not know what caused this phenomenon. Tests will be carried out on Monday.

Some believe the birds were hit by hail at high altitude or injured by New Year's fireworks.

Louis-Philippe Ouimet reports the details.


Video: http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/In ... orts.shtml

One comment says:
"This phenomenon is all the more surprising that 200 kilometers away, around 100 fish were found dead on the banks of the Arkansas rivers near Ozark. They were discovered Thursday evening by a towing company. Tests are currently underway to find out the reason for their deaths. "


I can't wait to know the test results ...
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by Christophe » 03/01/11, 19:10

An article that talks about 100 fish (counted them quickly !!):

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200 kilometers away, 100 fish were found dead on the banks of the city of Ozark, still in Arkansas. For the time being, biologists have been unable to establish a direct link between the two facts. Specialists mention a pollutant that would have decimated the fish, while the birds would have been killed following a thunderstorm as a result of stress linked to fireworks. The animals will undergo a necropsy, and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is still trying to find an explanation.

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100 fish were found dead, brought up and floating on 000 kilometers of the Arkansas river, for the majority of the malachigans. Here too the scientists express their dismay, the number of fish having succumbed being of an unprecedented scale. A priori, it would not be a simple observation of illness or water too poor in oxygen. Certain specimens, found alive, will be the subject of laboratory analyzes. These mass animal deaths are worrying. Be that as it may, and as slate.fr recalls, emerging theories about the events have been contradicted, the Bible nowhere mentioning that the death of fish and birds must be interpreted as a prophetic sign of Armageddon.


http://www.carevox.fr/sante-des-animaux ... 0-poissons
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by Christophe » 03/01/11, 23:56

Thousands of fallen birds in Arkansas are said to have died of fear

The rain of dead birds that surprised residents of the small town of Beebe in the US state of Arkansas on January 1 and made headlines in the American newspapers is certainly due to fright.

"We're now pretty sure it was trauma that caused their deaths," state veterinary service official George Badley said on Monday (Jan. 3).

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One resident said he heard about XNUMX detonations on Saturday night - possibly fireworks or cannon shots used to get rid of pest birds - followed by the erratic flight of large numbers of birds. "He heard the blackbirds fluttering around, he heard their wing flapping and heard them hitting obstacles," said Badley.


After : http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article ... _3222.html

Collective cardiac arrest? Uh yes but I can hardly believe it ... : Shock: : Shock: : Shock:

And how many birds die in each thunderstorm / lightning?
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by dedeleco » 04/01/11, 00:04

If these migrating flocks are like sheep to follow the first blindly, it is enough that the first derailed, panic-stricken, deafened, or heart attack (common on certain birds) which is followed by all the others against obstacles, instead of a precipice for the sheep ???? ??????????
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by dedeleco » 04/01/11, 00:32

Otherwise some birds like canaries, parakeets and hummingbirds are more sensitive to pollution than us, so canaries, parakeets and hummingbirds do not resist the fluorine emitted by the teflon of frying pans !!
A fire with Teflon is enough to kill all the birds above ????
Birds have an oxygen respiration far superior to ours for their flight energy.

http://mademoiselle-biotupp.over-blog.c ... 764-6.html
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Teflon ... sAug03.htm

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... NyP505p44g

http://forum.doctissimo.fr/sante/pollut ... 3164_1.htm
http://www.ewg.org/
http://www.ewg.org/chemindex/chemicals/Teflon-PFOA
http://www.ewg.org/chemindex/term/496

EPA interest was drawn as early as 1986 when a network of birds veterinarians reported an unusually high amount of parakeet and canary deaths. For a city like Chicago, there have been 300 brutal deaths in one year when the national annual average is 100. Autopsy reports always indicated the same reason: internal bleeding by inhalation of toxic fumes from Teflon. Birds are indeed very sensitive to toxic fumes; they were also used in mines in the last century, because their death alerted the miners to the presence of layers of odorless natural gas.
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by Christophe » 04/01/11, 00:34

I much prefer your second hypothesis ... : Idea:

Only 300 / year and 5000 / day is not the same.
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by dedeleco » 04/01/11, 00:41

300 / year is in kitchens with one or two canaries, and 5000 is above a wild fire of landfill full of junk with teflon !!! (there is everywhere in our food !!)
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by the middle » 04/01/11, 08:52

Hello,
Years ago, I learned that in China, to eliminate the starlings (sanzonets), we asked the population of a region where these birds were found in large numbers, to make noise by all means, and this X time, in order to frighten them, and to kill them by fatigue if my memory is good.
So, December 31, climate change, change of birds' resting places ... firecrackers ... fireworks ...
It's a possibility ... simple
Now everything is possible, with human beings
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by Christophe » 04/01/11, 09:42

Ok we can kill birds with noise!

It does not explain why we do not find it after a big storm or every new year or July 14 (or 21 for Belgians) ...
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by sherkanner » 04/01/11, 11:19

In my opinion, I would lean for pollution.

Some industrialists in the USA are not shy about releasing pollutants into the wild without precaution (it costs less than recycling or paying fines), too bad for the ensuing ecological disasters.

Fluorine seems to me a good customer, it is quite pernicious.
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