This is terrible! 0_o

Ugh.. poor babies 🙁 I love birds.. now I want to know what happened to them.

My hubby said a lake not too far from where the birds died, had bunches of dead fish too. Weird and spooky.

I read in the paper that it’s happened in two more places too, since this (that aren’t geographically close). I wonder what’s causing this?

24 hours newspaper, where I saw the article today.

It’s the one in the blue box above 70 Plus and beside the turtle. If you double click it should enlarge. In theory, it worked for me.

If the link brings you to page one, it’s one page two.

Sadly, mass deaths like this happen more often than we think. It’s just that the media has chosen to start publishing them and so it ‘seems’ as if they are all connected, when it is very unlikely that they are.

Fist and birds.. fish, especially, are very sensitive to changes in their environment, and some strange things can cause them to die off in great numbers; very natural (and not creepy) things like a small change in the amount of dissolved oxygen in the water, temperature changes, any myriad of natural or man-made chemical changes in the water, and so on.
Most diurnal birds have very poor night vision and can be easily visually confused at night with our man-made lights; it is why every year tens of thousands (if not more) of birds die from simple impact with radio towers, tall buildings, and even high tension lines.

When large winter flocks of blackbirds form they often roost (and fly) in very close proximity to one another. They form large flocks in the thousands. So, if one bird impacted something due to visual confusion or night blindness, yes.. thousands would too, sadly! The same if the flock was taken up by a hailstorm, or any number of other reasons.
Birds will fly out of their roost at night if something scares them– their first instinct is to fly to avoid predation after all. So if a few birds startled (storms? Fireworks?) or got blown out of a roost, most of the flock would probably follow in a panic.

There are so many reasons that this could happen and these are only a few theories. We are having a lot of climate change… natural, and unnatural both… and these things can sometimes effect animals in a negative way. Even seemingly minor changes can have a big impact.

While these events are very sad, and I am sure that they are caused by many different factors…. nature has been doing this for as long as there have been large populations of any type of animal.
There are many, many factors that can be taken into account.

Here are just a few examples. You can note the dates… they are all over the place.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7057494.ece

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36083941/ns/technology_and_science-science/

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1902885,00.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/14/world/fg-seaturtles14

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/pelican-deaths-california

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/12/wildlife.conservation

http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20061209.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010900281.html

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=188024

http://www.enctoday.com/news/-86417-jdn–.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6185536/dead_birds_reported_by_residents_in.html?cat=8

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/12/28/20101228tucson-70-dead-bats-found.html

http://www.sciencenewsblog.com/blog/109071

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/thousands-of-birds-die-in-sweltering-heat/story-e6frg12c-1111118551504

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/dead-fish-clog-lake-at-airport-20101218-191ba.html

Thanks for the information Jennifer!

I got a little ill reading some of the people’s youtube comments on the first link. I should know better by now, but it still startles me when the first thing I read is how the world is ending and these birds dying is proof :nea:

It is very sad. I love creatures great and small and I know that nature is an indifferent mistress, but I hope that they didn’t suffer at least.