New Mystery As More Birds Drop Dead In US

[Peter Lemkin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iCr6NuKj08

First the bees, now the birds....hmmmm......well all life forms are doomed unless humans stop doing what they are doing...but such a rapid response was not expected.

[Jan Klimkowski]

The Prison Planet piece makes some factual claims:

Around 2,000 red-winged blackbirds, as well as ducks, fell to their deaths over a 1-mile area of Beebe, Arkansas on Friday night. U.S. Environmental Services workers wore hazmat suits and gas masks as they picked up the dead birds on Sunday.

An area used by the birds to roost was unaffected, leading officials to conclude that the birds could not have died from an illness or have been targeted for poisoning. Lightning, fireworks and high-altitude hail have been forwarded as possible culprits.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-mass-bird...sting.html

Here's an MSNBC article with further factual claims:

No poison found in birds that fell on town

First tests suggest midair collision, but why still isn't certain; number raised to at least 4,000

msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 1/3/2011 3:23:17 PM ET 2011-01-03T20:23:17

BEEBE, Ark. Preliminary autopsies on 17 of the up to 5,000 blackbirds that fell on this town indicate they died of blunt trauma to their organs, the state's top veterinarian told NBC News on Monday.

Their stomachs were empty, which rules out poison, Dr. George Badley said, and they died in midair, not on impact with the ground.

That evidence, and the fact that the red-winged blackbirds fly in close flocks, suggests they suffered some massive midair collision, he added. That lends weight to theories that they were startled by something.

Earlier Monday, the estimated number of dead birds was raised to between 4,000 and 5,000, up sharply from the initial estimate of 1,000.

Keith Stephens, a spokesman for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, provided the new numbers.

Residents of the small town of Beebe awoke Saturday to find thousands of dead blackbirds littering a 1.5-square-mile area. The birds inexplicably dropped dead, landing on homes, cars and lawns.

Violent weather rumbled over much of the state Friday, including a tornado that killed three people in Cincinnati, Ark. Lightning could have killed the birds directly or startled them to the point that they became confused. Hail also has been known to knock birds from the sky.

The director of Cornell University's ornithology lab in Ithaca, N.Y., said the most likely suspect is violent weather. It's probable that thousands of birds were asleep, roosting in a single tree, when a "washing machine-type thunderstorm" sucked them up into the air, disoriented them, and even fatally soaked and chilled them.

"Bad weather can occasionally catch flocks off guard, blow them off a roost, and they get hurled up suddenly into this thundercloud," lab director John Fitzpatrick said.

Rough weather had hit the state earlier Friday, but the worst of it was already well east of Beebe by the time the birds started falling, said Chris Buonanno, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in North Little Rock.

If weather was the cause, the birds could have died in several ways, Fitzpatrick said. They could easily become disoriented with no lights to tell them up and down and smack into the ground. Or they could have died from exposure.

The birds' feathers keep them at a toasty 103 degrees, but "once that coat gets unnaturally wet, it's only a matter of minutes before they're done for," Fitzpatrick said.

Lightning or hail are also possibilities.

Karen Rowe, an ornithologist for the state commission, noted that in 2001 lightning killed about 20 mallards at Hot Springs, and a flock of dead pelicans was found in the woods about 10 years ago. Lab tests showed that they, too, had been hit by lightning.

Moreover, in 1973 hail knocked birds from the sky at Stuttgart, Ark. Some of the birds were caught in a violent storm's updrafts and became encased in ice before falling from the sky.

Rowe noted that birds of prey and other animals, including dogs and cats, ate several of the dead blackbirds and suffered no ill effects.

"Every dog and cat in the neighborhood that night was able to get a fresh snack that night," Rowe said.

Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, said the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. A dozen workers hired by the city to do the cleanup wore environmental-protection suits for the task.

Robertson said the workers wore the suits as a matter of routine and not out of fear that the birds might be contaminated.

"It started at 7 a.m., picking up birds on the street, in the yards, been run over. It's just a mess," Beebe Street Department supervisor Milton McCullar told WISC-TV.

Video: In Arkansas, it rained dead birds
Several hundred thousand red-winged blackbirds have used a wooded area in the town as a roost for the past several years.

Robertson and other officials went to the roost area over the weekend and found no dead birds on the ground.

"That pretty much rules out an illness" or poisoning, the mayor said.

But some residents voiced concerns.

"I've been to Iraq and back and not seen nothing like this," Beebe resident Jeff Drennan told local Fox16 News on Sunday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40885546/ns/...vironment/


:hitball:

[Jack White]

Chemtrails.

[Ed Jewett]

Map of Mass Animal Deaths




via Cryptogon and Google Maps

[Peter Lemkin]

Map of Mass Animal Deaths




via Cryptogon and Google Maps

Doesn't look so good in the USA, does it.....:loco:

[Jack White]

I have read several articles that suspect HAARP.

I still think Chemtrails.

Jack

[Keith Millea]

This isn't related to the critter deaths,but it's a weird story anyhow.

Victoria river mysteriously turns bright green

Jane London/Handout
The water in Goldstream River, at Goldstream Provincial Park, Victoria, flows a bright green, Dec. 29, 2010.




Postmedia News December 30, 2010 9:03 am
VICTORIA Horrified nature-lovers at Goldstream Provincial Park watched as the Goldstream River turned bright green late Wednesday afternoon.
The fluorescent green colouring appeared to start about 500 metres on the Victoria side of the entrance to the park and, over the course of an hour, the substance flowed down into the environmentally sensitive estuary.
By 5:30 p.m. the river, known for its dramatic salmon runs, eagles and other wildlife, was back to its normal colour.

Ministry of Environment teams were immediately sent to the area to investigate and members of Langford Fire Department collected samples for analysis.
No dead fish or animals had been found by early evening.
Earlier in the day a fountain beside Veterans Memorial Parkway in Langford also turned bright green, said Langford Fire Chief Bob Beckett.

Victoria Times Colonist



Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/12/30/...z1AI81FeXY

UPDATE:


December 31, 2010 5:44 pm
By Judith Lavoie, Postmedia News
VICTORIAThe chemical that turned Victoria's Goldstream River green earlier this week has been confirmed as fluorescein.
Water samples taken Wednesday from the river and from a green-spouting fountain in Veterans Memorial Park were sent to Environment Canada's Pacific Environmental Science Centre in North Vancouver for assessment, said Dan Gilmore, provincial environment ministry spokesman.
"Test results . . . confirm the substance causing the green colour in the river and the fountain was fluorescein," Mr. Gilmore said.

"Fluorescein is a synthetic organic compound soluble in water and alcohol. It is widely used as a fluorescent tracer for many applications. The product itself and its products of degradation are not toxic."
Based on the flow rate of the river, the probable concentration of fluorescein and lab results, Environment Ministry staff do not believe that fish or fish habitat were harmed during this incident, Mr. Gilmore said.
The chemical is usually used to trace leaks from septic tanks and water systems and can be bought online.
Fluorescein is also used in medical diagnosis and guidelines warn it can cause reactions ranging from nausea and hives to death from anaphylactic shock.
Victoria Times Colonist



Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/12/31/...z1AIAMMNPz

[Magda Hassan]

That does not look at all normal does it? Quite extraordinary.

[Magda Hassan]

200 starlings found dead but this time there's no mystery: U.S. government admits poisoning birds in South Dakota


By Gavin Allen
Last updated at 10:39 AM on 21st January 2011

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The bizarre trend of massed animal deaths around the world in January has been as baffling as it is disturbing.

It started on New Year's Eve as 4,000 birds crashed to earth over a one-mile area of Beebe, Arkansas, and was followed by tens of thousands of fish washing up on a river bank in nearby Ozark.
But rather than proving to be isolated incidents, they were the first in a long series of oddities that have seemingly defied explanation - or at least some of them have.




South Dakota: Dead birds litter the ground but the USDA has claimed responsibility for poisoning them


Shock: The USDA was surprised the poisoned birds managed to fly 10 miles

Plummet: The birds fell from the sky and plugged straight into the snowy ground


The latest occurrence saw around 200 starlings drop from the sky in Yankton, South Dakota but, with local authorities were baffled, the government stepped forward to claim responsibility.

It was initially believed that cold weather may have caused the deaths, but then Yankton police received a call from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), stating that its officials had poisoned the birds.

Some 5,000 of the birds had been terrorising a feedlot 10 miles away, defecating in the feed meal and posing a threat to the animals and farm workers.


Enlarge The location: Yankton, South Dakota

The USDA decided killing them would be the best action to take and laced bait with the poison DRC-1339.

Officials were surprised the birds made it so far before dying, but they have assured the townsfolk that the poisoned dead birds do not pose a risk to nearby animals or humans.
The Yankton mystery was solved quickly but many similar incidents remain unresolved.


Arkansas: Redwing blackbird fell from the sky in the town of Beebe


The plot thickens: Rescue chief Christer Olofsson holds a dead bird in Falkoping, Sweden, where dozens of jackdaws were found dead on the street


Mass bird deaths, ranging in numbers from dozens to thousands, were reported in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, California, Italy and Sweden.



Mass fish death have been reported in Arkansas, Maryland, Chicago, New Zealand and Brazil.
The trend has also hit Britain with 40,000 devil crabs washing ashore along the Kent coast while hundreds of fish were found floating lifelessly in a Greater Manchester pond.
Both those British examples were attributed to extreme temperatures in a very cold winter, and some of the U.S. incidents have also been explained away.

The deaths of two hundred cows on a farm in Wisconsin has been attributed to pneumonia or a similar disease, while the deaths of thousands of turtle in the Italian town of Faenza was attributed to over-eating.


Enlarge Worldwide phenomenon: This map shows mass animal deaths across the globe

Other rational theories floated for the various incidents but much of it is guesswork and in any vacuum of facts conspiracy theorists are sure to tread.

On the website PrisonPlanet.com, run by American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, dug out evidence of bio terrorism.

Quoting a 1997 interview with former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen, in which he stated: '[Terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism, whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.'
The truth is out there: But perhaps aliens are not really to blame

Members of internet forum Mayhem Makers brought aliens into the argument, with one poster called 'Devil Johnny', writing: 'I'm not saying the alien conspiracy is true, but I'm saying people need to start thinking on their own. You believe anything a man in a suit tells you.'
Even Mayhem Makers pessimists got in on the act when another poster, 'Woll Smoth', said: '2012 is coming earlier', referring to the ancient Mayan prophecy that the world will end on December 21, 2012.
But while it is easy to dismiss the conspiracy theorists, some are closer to the mark than others.

Alex Jones of PrisonPlanet.com posed the question 'could secret government testing be responsible for the carnage?'
He said: 'Electromagnetic scalar weapons that can artificially manipulate the environment could be responsible for the mass die offs. We know for a fact that over a decade ago the U.S.

'Military Industrial Complex was aware of and involved in the testing of such technology.

'The U.S. government has been repeatedly caught engaging in illegal bio-weapons tests over American skies that have maimed and killed not just animals, but humans.
'Given the history of governments across the world performing unwitting experiments on their populations, the number one suspect in such cases should always be government.'
As the conspiracy nuts would say, 'just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't watching you'.

Jones may have got his workings out wrong in this instance, but he somehow stumbled on the right answer.

[Peter Lemkin]

That does not look at all normal does it? Quite extraordinary.

Looks normal to me! :loco: See fluorescent green rivers all the time.....Anyway, best get used to things like this. Sadly, most of the pollution one can't see...but it is as concentrated as that green dye.....or should we say 'die'.