Animals Dying En Masse?

[Shadow Wolf]

Experts said the cold weather may have caused the birds’ deaths as the flock was swept into a high-altitude wind storm before falling to earth.

Since this is not an isolated incident, I really doubt that is the case.
It might just be that we have put too many pollutants and carbon in the air and water. But even that really doesn't explain it that well or it would be happening on an even larger scale.
Maybe with their animal instincts they discovered that the 2012 end date is actually when Cthulhu is going to rise, and the Great Old Ones are going to reclaim the earth, and the great shock and unimaginable horror suddenly killed them.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The way they explained the magnetic field shifting about 25 miles a year really doesn't make since, or we would probably see something similar, at least on a smaller scale, annually. However the cold air/water theory may be a very grave indication that we have failed to prevent and ease the effects of Global Warming before it is too late.

 

[kai]

weird ? people are now calling it the “Aflockalypse"

“Aflockalypse” — Mass Animal Deaths Now Mapped on Google


but i am not heading for the hills just yet:

Even very plausible explanations did not allay the suspicion that something sinister must be going on. Why? Because we’re human. Our minds have evolved to look for patterns, and causative agents. In fact, some thinkers argue that this turn of mind, which evolved as a survival mechanism, ended up predisposing humans to believe in a deity, because when we can’t find a natural cause for an apparent pattern or event, we posit a supernatural one. Certainly it predisposed us to look for an interesting culprit for the bird die-offs.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/weekinreview/09gorman.html

BBC News - The mystery of mass bird deaths

 

[Klaufi_Wodensson]

This is so weird. Because in Arkansas, 5,000 redwing blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe, and 125 miles away, over 1000 fish showed up dead. I never heard about the turtledoves until today.

 

[Klaufi_Wodensson]

Oh man, people were already talking about the Arkansas deaths

 

[Rakhel]

My family and I were talking about this today.

The only scientifically logical theory that I can think of that makes any sense to me is:
All the earthquakes we have had in the last two(?) years, especially the one in Chile, knocked the Earth's axis enough to confuse the birds' natural migrations.

 

[kai]

It has happened before:

Dead birds rain down on towns half a world apart
Last updated at 22:00 10 January 2007


Read more: Dead birds rain down on towns half a world apart | Mail Online

 

[no-body]

I am admittedly pretty dumb at understanding science so maybe I'm missing the obvious but what about all those gallons of oil that got pumped into the ocean? It would be nice if they could at least reference it and say that it has nothing to do with this because that's the first thing my mind jumps to. It's like everyone has forgotten about it.

 

[England my lionheart]

Weird things are happening,i have a nesting box next to our lounge window,the Goldfinch keeps missing the box and hitting the window,not hard but as if its trying to get in,the hole for the box is 9 inches away from the window,i noticed this last year,never happened before though.

I hope this doesn't mean the end as i've paid for my holiday and i wouldn't get a refund

 

[Duck]

Well, if it was dark and they were disoriented then...maybe.

However, I was thinking more along the lines of: they hit the ground after they were already dead. The trauma injuries could have been sustained after the birds died.

To be honest though, I really don't know what killed them. The most plausible scenario I've heard thus far, at least for the Arkansas mass death, is the startle-scatter-crash, (i.e. something startled them and, panicked and disoriented, they flew into various nearby objects. [trees, homes, cars, each other, etc.])

According to Cindy Jacobs of General's International ministry, the cause (at least of the Arkansas mass deaths of fish and birds) was repeal of DADT. I kid you not, fish and birds died in Arkansas because a discriminatory law enacted by a former governor of Arkansas was repealed.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I'm sure it's just the beginning of the end of the world. Again.

 

[croak]

BBC News - Alcohol poisoning, not avian flu, killed Romanian birds

Alcohol and birds don't tend to go together.

 

[Kathryn]

Don't drink and fly.

 

[croak]

Don't drink and fly.

Don't worry about me.