On New Year's Eve birds fell from the sky

On New Year's Eve, birds fell from the sky. It was reported that some 5000 blackbirds & starling fell from the sky, dead as stones, and littered the roads and sidewalks, and also some 100,000 drumfish died near Beebe, Arizona. Their strange voices, forever silent. And now 500 more blackbirds have also fallen from the sky in LaBarre, Louisiana? They are lining the roads of LeBarre. And now Gilbert, Kentucky, and Beebe, Arkansas. Blackbird singing a dirge in the dead of night. All those broken wings luffing in the breeze. A wandering toxic cloud?—only it seems to be species selective. Someone claimed fireworks Well, it's happening in a lot of places at once. Either that or the series, Flash Forward is real! All the dead birds falling from the sky. Portent of things to come. 2011, the year all the birds died, does not bode well for the new year. It feels like we're medieval Irish & Saxon scribes recording our doomed year in our own Doomsday books...
 
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Thousands of dead doves rain down on Italy. Cold snap, chemical release, flock disorientation, what else? Remember that when Chernobyl blew, the Soviets SAT on the info for nearly a week... About the time the cloud reached California, it rained hard. It rained isotopes. That was the year of massive bird die-offs in California. 

Yesterday alone 300 dead birds were recovered, all having a blue tinge to their beaks, which scientists say indicates poisoning or lack of oxygen. 

NYE, some 5000 blackbirds & starling fell dead from the sky and 100,000 drum fish died near Beebe, AR. And now 500 more birds died in Louisiana? Sounds like a wandering toxic cloud—only it's species selective.

Aflockalypse Now! 
1/7/11



here's yet another explanation:
Blame the USDA for some of the deaths
government acknowledged Thursday that it had a hand in one of a string of mysterious mass bird deaths that have spooked residents in Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, South Dakota, and Kentucky in the last month.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) took responsibility for hundreds of dead starlings that were found on the ground and frozen in trees in a Yankton, S.D., park on Monday.
The USDA's Wildlife Services Program, which contracts with farmers for bird control, said it used an avicide poison called DRC-1339 to cull a roost of 5,000 birds that were defecating on a farmer's cattle feed across the state line in Nebraska. But officials said the agency had nothing to do with large and dense recent bird kills in Arkansas and Louisiana.


Toxic cloud may be responsible for animal deaths   
LONDON (Herald de Paris) – It is alarming the number of excuses being given for the animals that have been dropping dead since New Year’s Eve; washing ashore; and falling from the skies.  Surely science can not be this daft.  Is it ignorance?  Or does someone not want you to know what is really going on?  Let’s take a look.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission blames the sudden mass death of 5,000 red-winged blackbirds on … fireworks.  They went on to explain that blackbirds have poor vision, and flew into a New Year’s celebration.  The Arkansas explanation, however, failed to address the birds that similarly died en masse in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Louisiana, around the same time.  Surely Arkansas blackbirds with bad eyesight did not fly into a fireworks display, then glide gently to other states to expire.
At almost the exact same time, approximately 100,000 drum fish washed ashore along a 32 mile stretch of the Arkansas River.  Arkansas authorities immediately denied a connection.  “We don’t see any possible way they’re related,” said Mark Oliver of the state’s fish and game commission.  They blamed the mass death of the drum on disease.
This would imply two things.  First, every drum contracted the exact same disease at the exact same time.  Diseases don’t work like that.  So, too, it would imply that fish are much less healthy, but have much better eyesight than local blackbirds.

 On December 16th, 2010, the circulation of the atmosphere swirled backwards against the jet stream over North America, as colder air rushed down through the center of the United States, while tropical Pacific air entered the Southwest. This seems to have upset something in the upper atmosphere. Hold that thought.

The jet stream normally moves air masses through our atmosphere predominantly from West to East, with subtle variations. December 28-31, Arkansas experienced what locals called, “Crazy weather,” heavy rains, and unseasonable tornadic activity caused, at least in-part, by the swirling effects of the “backwards” incident of December 16th.

Where does that unsettled air mass go next? Generally Eastward, and what is East of Arkansas? Among other places Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maryland. Several days later, after crossing the Atlantic Ocean, that same air mass spreads out over Europe, and dips back down into the Asian Pacific possibly encountering the UK, Sweden, Thailand, and New Zealand along the way.

It seems logical then that the same mass of air has been in-place in the general vicinity of every fish and marine massacre of the past 9 days, and the correlation between the air and the water can be explained as simply as rainfall. Please recall that the atmosphere and large bodies of water are forever tied together by the water cycle, the single element that creates the conditions to sustain life as we know it on our planet."

 Fireworks blamed for killing blackbirds
Associated Press BEEBE, Ark. - New Year's revelers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: thousands of dead blackbirds.

The red-winged blackbirds rained out of the darkness onto rooftops and sidewalks and into fields. One struck a woman walking her dog. Another hit a police cruiser.

Birds were "littering the streets, the yards, the driveways, everywhere," said Robby King, a county wildlife officer in Beebe, a community of 5,000 northeast of Little Rock. "It was hard to drive down the street in some places without running over them."
A few stunned birds survived their fall and stumbled around like drunken revelers.
In all, more than 3,000 birds tumbled to the ground. Scientists said yesterday that fireworks appeared to have frightened the birds into such a frenzy that they crashed into homes, cars and each other. Some may have flown straight into the ground.

"The blackbirds were flying at rooftop level instead of treetop level" to avoid explosions above, said Karen Rowe, an ornithologist with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. "Blackbirds have poor eyesight, and they started colliding with things."

But Rowe stopped short of declaring the mystery solved, saying that labs planned to test bird carcasses for toxins or disease.
Another theory was that violent thunderstorms might have disoriented the flock or even just one bird that could have led the group in a fatal plunge. Maryland/Chesapeak: "Cold water stress exacerbated by a large population of the affected species (juvenile spot fish) appears to be the cause of the kill."

The investigation comes days after the deaths of an estimated 100,000 fish in northwest Arkansas. Authorities suspect disease was to blame there, a state spokesman said.

If the poison to reduce non-native starling population in 2009 had been metabolized, then would there be no chemical trace? Then, the blackbirds are native species casualties.

1/09 Leusner told The Star-Ledger of Newark that her department wasn't part of the culling program, but said it had been told of plans to feed the birds a "controlled substance." She could not say where they were poisoned or what was used to kill them.

"The dead birds pose no hazard to people or pets because the substance has been metabolized inside the bird," Leusner said, citing information in a USDA advisory.

That statement said the culling was done because European starlings "congregate at feed lots and dairies in the winter, causing damage by consuming and contaminating seed and contributing to the spread of diseases.

Jackdaws of Sweden could conceivably eat poison meant for starlings—similar habitat & feeding behaviours.

Hundreds more dead birds -- this time in Gilbert Kentucky What is happening to our birds? After thousands are reported dead in Arkansas and Louisiana, the Local 6 region experiences its own mysterious bird deaths. The dead birds have neighbors and scientists wondering if it's nature or something suspicious.

Mass bird and fish deaths becoming worldwide phenomenon |

And mass extinctions continue:
Why Did Two-Thirds of These Weird Antelope Suddenly Drop Dead? Only one factor fit the bill: climate. The places where the saigas died in May 2015 were extremely warm and humid. In fact, humidity levels were the highest ever seen the region since records began in 1948. The same pattern held for two earlier, and much smaller, die-offs from 1981 and 1988. ...  Indeed, mass animal die-offs are becoming increasingly common, with the number of such events increasing by around one a year for the last 70 years. Starfish. Swallows. Gazelles. Bats. All around the world, more and more animals are dying in record numbers.