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Mystery of falling dead birds and masses of dead fish
treesparrow:
Another incident, this one again in the US and again involving starlings. This is the 5th mysterious mass bird death event in the US over the last fortnight.
--- Quote ---TOWSON, Md. - Baltimore County Officials are trying to figure out what caused a giant flock of birds to be hit by a van early Thursday evening.
Police say that a van was traveling on Burke Avenue just past the Berkshire Marriott just before 4:00 p.m., when a flock of about 75 birds flew in front of the van.
The van subsequently hit most of them, killing them.
Baltimore County's Bureau of Highways was called out to the scene to clean up the birds and dispose of them appropriately.
There is no word on what may have caused the birds and the van to collide.
No one was injured in the incident.
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Video -
http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/region/baltimore_county/flock-of-birds-hit-killed-by-van
treesparrow:
I thought I might have been over doing this thread until I saw the latest report on Sott -
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/239714-US-Thousands-of-Blackbirds-Fall-to-Their-Death-in-Arkansas-Town-for-Second-New-Year-s-Eve-In-a-Row
Same place exactly one year later - truly weird.
So, for what it's worth some additional reports.
--- Quote ---Walkers discover in Neuchatel poisoned ravens
Poisoned birds fall from the sky and die in agony Have they been intentionally poisoned? Walkers have discovered in Neuchatel ten dead raven. "It was a bloodbath," said one of them. Two of the animals are now being investigated. The police are investigating.
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The full report translated from German -
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa%3Dt%26fd%3DR%26usg%3DAFQjCNElms-FGWmAl8oE81scVlXHiKSfmQ%26url%3Dhttp://www.badische-zeitung.de/neuenburg/vergiftete-voegel-fallen-vom-himmel-und-verenden-qualvoll--53874037.html
Another report from the US at the end of November -
--- Quote ---Cluster of dead birds leaves motorists, bystanders puzzled
November 30, 2011 9:14 PM
DAILY NEWS STAFF
A cluster of more than 100 dead birds scattered across N.C. 24 left passing motorists and bystanders puzzled Wednesday afternoon.
The starlings were found dead on the highway at the Wildlife Boat Ramp in Cedar point around 2:30 p.m. Eyewitnesses hypothesized that a flock of the birds had been struck by a large passing vehicle, or that a charge from a nearby powerline had killed them.
Law enforcement officers were unable to provide an official explanation for the phenomenon.
Officials with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office said they had been called out to investigate the strange incident, but when they arrived on the scene just before 3 p.m., they could not locate the birds, and they closed the incident investigation shortly thereafter.
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http://www.jdnews.com/articles/birds-97975-dead-cluster.html
An update of the situation concerning the Indian report -
--- Quote ---Crow death specter spreads to Jajpur
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http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-12-30/bhubaneswar/30572371_1_crow-deaths-h5n1-avian-influenza-virus
Hithere:
Masses of herring found dead at a beach in the north of Norway in late december, cause unknown:
_http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/troms_og_finnmark/1.7936999
treesparrow:
--- Quote from: Hithere on January 02, 2012, 02:59:23 PM ---Masses of herring found dead at a beach in the north of Norway in late december, cause unknown:
_http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/troms_og_finnmark/1.7936999
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Reminds me of this similar report from Iceland on the 20 Dec -
--- Quote ---Seabirds Feast on Dead and Dying Herring
Dead and dying herring on the beaches of Breiðafjörður fjord in west Iceland attract thousands of birds. Forty sea eagles were spotted at Jónsnes. Stench extends from the decaying fish and spreads in the thaw.
The situation is blamed on fishing and infection in the herring; the Icelandic Marine Research Institute will investigate the death in January, Fréttablaðið reports.
“There were thousands of seagulls, probably around one hundred ravens but the most magnificent sight was a group of forty sea eagles,” said Jóhann Kjartansson, one of the owners of the land Jónsnes on Snæfellsnes peninsula.
“An incredibly large percentage of the stock gathered there in a small area,” he added. The Icelandic sea eagle stock numbers around 65 couples.
A large part of the Icelandic summer spawning herring stock has resided in Breiðafjörður in the past years. The herring fleet has caught fish there and has been successful in fishing within quota limits issued after an infection came up in the stock.
This year the fishing was limited to Breiðafjörður; the infection hasn’t been as prominent outside the area.
There are two theories as to why there is such a large amount of dead and dying herring on the fjord’s beaches and ocean floor.
One the one hand, that fishermen have been too active in the autumn and, on the other hand, that the infection is to blame. Approximately 30 percent of the herring stock is infected and it is therefore considered the most likely explanation.
“There is a considerable amount of herring decaying on the beaches. It is a sorry situation and continues to worsen. In still weather you see gas bubbles surface; it is if the ocean is boiling. There must be something decaying on the ocean floor,” commented Lárus Hallfreðsson, farmer at Ögur near Stykkishólmur.
Lárus said the seaweed on the beaches is covered in herring oil from which there extends a pungent disgusting smell.
“I find it likely that an infection is partially to blame but no less the fishing of the large ships which came all the way up to the shore to catch herring,” he theorized.
The Icelandic Marine Research Institute is planning a research expedition to Breiðafjörður next month and the Directorate of Fisheries has started taking samples for research.
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Here's a useful blog listing daily mass animal, bird and fish deaths, for those who may be interested. Includes recent mass bird deaths in Australia (magpies) and New Mexico, US (crows).
http://paradigmsbend.blogspot.com/p/list-of-mass-animal-deaths-2011.html
davey72:
They concluded last year that it was due to the fireworks. Looks like they did it at the same time this year to use it as an excuse. For the blackbirds, anyway.
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