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January 5th, 2011
08:27 AM ET
Dead bird mystery deepens
Coincidence or conspiracy? That's the question many of you are asking after another 500 birds were found dead yesterday just outside of Pointe Coupee Parish in Louisiana. This comes after over 5,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings had fallen from the sky only about 300 miles away in Beebe, Ark. It is a strange phenomenon but as the National Wildlife Federation’s Doug Inkley explains this morning on American Morning, it is not enough to be considered a conspiracy.
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When I looked at the map , to me it looked as if it was occurring near fault lines. I know , I know , usually the parts of the US that the birds are dieing in is not traditionallly areas of earthquakes. But recently there has been an increase in activity near the Madras fault. Get ready for the big one.
I'm not a "holy roller" but doesn't the Bible state..."when birds & fish start dying...the earth will be nearing it's end." Hopefully not; however, the evidence is starting to point in that direction. Let's not put our heads in the sand on this one....something is amiss.
I told you so!!
I love how so many of you have your educated theories...but you can't even spell. IMO, we are either talking about "natural causes" stemming from some systematic changes going on with our planet, or God forbid, a biblical/2012 "end of day's" scenario. I hope it's not the latter. Pretty freaky though, when you look at all of the recent animal deaths being mapped by Google: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201817256339889828327.0004991bca25af104a22b
Wow... Yea sure. Clearly they brought an "expert" on the show to give answers that certain parties want to hear. No "expert" would blatantly and ignorantly claim that two instances of mass avian mortality within 300 miles of each other is something that "just happens". If you believe there is no correlation I want to punch you in the face.
I've seen birds chased by hawks that hit my glass window and still able to fly away. There is no way birds hitting each other and die especially when it's not as hard as my glass window.
Birds and Fish two different metabolic respiration. If it were humans, what would we surmise. Fracting? Pollution? Change in temp? We may be next.
End of times? Good possibility.
Mass poisoning during flock migration? Sounds plausable.
"Fracking" gas? Well....possible but I'm not so sure.
Government cover-up? Maybe, although I would doubt they caused the problem.
What I don't get is, with all the scientific knowledge and equipment available, why a true cause of death can't be established. (What were the manifestations within the corpses that caused life to cease?). Then maybe we could assign the "blame".
Hi people, I have never posted a comment on CNN before, but can't in all honesty not respond to these events.
i have spent many hours researching these events, and to me, the most reasonable and logical explanation is the use of the HAARP facility based in Alaska. I won't go into any detail as to why, but I would strongly urge readers to Google "HAARP dead birds", or anything similar and come to their own conclusions.
It astounds me that as far as I know, not a single media outlet has even considered this a remote possibility, much less a high probability...
Thanks
In Nashville we have hundreds of birds falling from the sky too!!!!
BS! This is a very poor cover up! They don't want a PUBLIC PANIC!!
First of all birds do not fly at night, because they do not have night version. (like bats)
Secondly birds do not hold hands in massive group and fly into power line! And even IF they do, shouldn't they have some sort of burns from the power line?? (no signs of burns were found)
Finally, we use fireworks every year and how we have all these mess this year?
Personally I think it has a lot to do with the polar magnetic shifting.
All you fools ..You will not be prepared to what is to come....
Ask your selves what you would do if you are playing chess and are preparing to check you opponent...It`s much easier when you are cloaked ....
Add the fate of the Seahawks, Ravens and Falcons to this mystery.
Magnetic Field Shift. . . It is so simple. Check it out. Global warming is a hoax made up so that we feel that we have some kind of control, and the truth is we don't.
Quoted from a friend's blog:
Fireworks? Cold water stress? Perhaps. I think it more likely that the King of the Universe is speaking as He did long ago through the prophet Hosea:
"....The Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: there is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgement of God in the land...Because of this the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying."
(Hosea 4:1,3)
I do not need to add anymore. The Lord is speaking.
Shifting magnetic fields also may cause deaths in fish, due to disorientation and stress... see the results of the effects of magnetism on fish found in this paper entitled "EFFECTS OF MAGNETIC FIELD ON THE DIRECTION OF FISH MOVEMENT
UNDER NATURAL CONDITIONS" authored by Krzysztof Formicki, Adam Tański, Aleksander Winnicki: http://www.ursi.org/Proceedings/ProcGA02/papers/p0842.pdf.
For the effects of magnetism on birds and bees, refer to this paper written by Joseph Kirschvink of Caltech entitled "Birds, bees and magnetism: A new look at the old problem of magnetoreception"
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/users/jkirschvink/pdfs/TrendsInNeuroscience.pdf
The Earth's poles are slowly shifting towards a reversal, a reversal will cause multiple North and south poles to develop... It's simple stress induced by disorientation that's killing the birds, fish and bees.
My guess... The bird deaths are caused by the changes in the Earth's magnetic field due to increasing drift and changes of the earth's magnetic poles. It's well known that birds navigate over distances by sensing the magnetic fields of the earth... shifting poles = disoriented birds, Disoriented birds = great stress, great stress = dead birds. Simple really.
The same thing happened to hundreds of birds here in California.
could by chance the birds could have been frozen in the air by a cold front that was moving thru
i love how smart people think of the most rediculous explanations... If this happened from time to time it wouldnt be a surprise. And of course the anchors believe this guy. When the truth is he doesnt know what happened his self.
Since this has been so widespread and it is rare, wonder if it doesnt have something to do with the earths atmosphere or something that fell from the sky into the waters that doesnt effect humans–maybe it came in with the recent storms in the U.S.–cannot imagine any thing biological that would only effect birds (air) and fish (water) and nothing on land
Birds are very sensitive to a lack of oxygen because their lungs are super efficient to be able to fly (that's why canaries were used in coal mines to warn miners of poisonous gases) so I bet they were suffocated by some sort of gas.
Birds were reported dead too in Romania. Something very strange going on. It could be it was a test and they know the test worked. I hope they did not make money on this. It is a crime to kill wildlife for no reason even if you consider it a pest. We were invaded by beetles a few years ago and who did that?
what we learned first that it was the fire works for the first flock !second flock was the power lines and the third was !!!well i think they found some kind of silly reason why !!well i have no idea why they deal with the public like they are bunch of fools!!wake up people and let me say it in a so sensitive way not to hurt anybody's feeling !they are not telling the trueth!!
The same thing hapopened in NJ in about 1997. Nobody knew anything but as the story got bigger Fish and Game admitted they poisoned them.
The same thing happened on monday morning on the interstate in Athens Alabama
I'll worry when all the dolphins disappear. (So long, and thanks for all the fish.)
I think all of these fish and birds dying points to mass suicide. This is more believable than the experts opinion.
Remember the disappearing bees? That was never explained, and now the fish and birds. Can't be natural.
If those birds hit the side of that Water Tower, should'nt there be some kind of DNA left on the surface of that Water Tank?
The bird deaths are occurring exactly where there is active FRACKING IS OCCURRING!!!! Toxic gas is burping up in porous ground around water beds marshes, rivers. Get an overlay of active fracking sites and deaths. Fish are dying for the same reason.
what about the thousands of fish that died in that river? they were blind?
lord I can not believe that people think we are so stupid that we buy the lie that fire crackers killed all of these birds . Come on ha stop the madness be real we better wake up america something is wrong and the goverment is not talking. So people don't panic it's a sign of the times we are in pray pray pray because we can not depend on the goverment , we can only depend on God he is our answer to so much of our problems...
This story is really sad to here
We are certainly seeing the signs of the "end of our age." I would not refer to it as the "end of time." All the signs are coming to past. There is a spiritual war taking place in the heavens and just as the bible has stated, when the "end of ages" began to occur men will go about doing, "business as usual." Blind eyes never look to see, they are blind. But we who see, know that the time is drawing near. Not long from today, there shall be an earthquake that shall shadow all previous earthquakes. There are government offical who are aware of the shift in our universe but are convinced reporting the truth is both useless and would cause chaos.
Just looking around on the internet found more reports of dead birds in Arkansas, Louisiana,Kentucky,Sweden, near Tyler Tx. Austin Tx. and read a repot of dead birds washing up on Galveston Island . Dead fish in Louisiana and in Volusia County Florida.
What about the dead birds near Tyler Texas and the birds washing up on Galveston Island Tx. this past week? No mention of the dead fish either in Louisiana.
Think "Thunder Generator Cannon" from Israel. I'm not saying they are doing it, but, they have developed this equipment to scare birds, and others have been trying to develop it to use as a weapon.
Supported by: Jan 2, 2011 ... Arkansas Game and Fish Press Release: BEEBE, Ark.– Friday night, ... About 2000 black birds fell from the sky off Windwood Drive.
If you notice the "probable source" is to the left of Windwood Drive in Beebe.
I am confident this is the source, and if it is so, then something major pushed gases with such force as to kill the birds as they roosted and throw them over the houses to the street. This is it folks!
http://www.studentech.net/source.jpg
The label conspiracy does not apply to this. Nature going berserk for whatever reason (pollution, climate change, meteor blast) is not a conspiracy.
This interview told the public nothing. "This kind of thing happens sometimes" is not an answer and the news staff who told this scientist this should think about that.
Earlier, the public was told that these birds (in particular, but probably most species of birds in general) do not fly at night.
Yet, the news staff, nor this scientist questioned or reviewed that fact.
Additionally, none of these people questioned what the "loud noise" was that people had heard almost immediately before the birds dropped from the sky.
Also, the scientist's claim that they all hit powerlines, buildings, houses, etc. doesn't make sense since people witnessed birds dropping from directly above them. There are no buildings up in the sky (or powerlines). If they did hit something enough to sustain serious enough trauma resulting in internal bleeding and/or tissue damage, their deaths probably wouldn't have been delayed long enough to fly back up high into the sky where they dropped down from– or seemingly at the same time.
This issue still deserves diligent investigation and legitimate explanations.
I'm not sure what the reason for these birds dropping dead are ... but I think it's a little more than what has been reported. And weird? There HAVE been a cluster of small earthquakes in this area? Go to the US Geological Society and see for yourself.
any wind turbines near by? they eliminate thousands and thousands of all types of species and sizes of birds and bats every year.
This is the most ridiculous explaination ive ever heard. Why are these people giving these ridiculous theories? Hell, an invisible alien space craft is more believable than some fireworks went off and 5000 birds flew into eachother. How stupid do these people think we are?
Is this going to be an issue for humans?.. Such as a mutated strand of H5N1 that wipes out 1/4-1/2 of the population?!
The fireworks answer makes me facepalm, and the cover-up makes me even more upset.. what say thee, homosapien friends?
I love it. All these so-called "experts" can't say for sure what caused this but they know for sure what didn't cause it????? Smells like some BS to me.
What about all the dead fish in Arkansas as well? There were more than 100,000 dead fish found in Northwest Arkansas.
over 5000 birds falling out of the sky seems way to unusual to me and to probably most people. Flash Forward anyone.
It's not a UFO. It's our governments secret planes that can cloak themselves. Just wait until Sweden figures out we were there without permission! Anyone that thinks that fireworks killed the birds with blunt force trauma, they flew into cars, or anything else besides something in the air needs their head examined!
Blackbirds and starlings in great numbers destroy crops. They were poisoned.
All I have to say with the birds dying and the fishes dying its pointing towards the end
This expert sounds dumb. If they flew into each other where are the broken beaks and blood ? It would be a bloody mess don't you think?If it is a natural happening how come it hasn't happened before in my 57 year old memory ?
Okay...but what about the ones in Sweden as well. Definitely something weird is going on here.
well that's bullsh!t.
what about the tons of dead fish found in brazil? millions of fish in chesapeake? birds in sweden? fish in spruce creek and hawai'i?
idk. quite the coincidence, i suppose.
In all the years you have grown up ask your self has there been such an event were alot of birds just die no!!!!!! So open ur eyes n see dat theres a bigger problem at state were u can fix it or we betta have faith
BULL!
Did he just say these things just happen? Does he know were talking thousands not hundreds? i think you guys need a real expert clearly this guy doesnt know what hes talking about!
This is obviously a Hoax, made up.
Could the loss of wildlife and Fish in the central states be caused by Hydraulic Fracturing polutants from the thousands of Natural gas wells drilled in the ground.There was a program on TV showing water taps in homes catching fire when openned it was very alarming.
If you reveiw enviromental impact re: Hydraulic Fracturing you will be astonished that this was even allowed.
The same thing happened in Sweden on January 4th. Hundreds of birds around a city in southwestern Sweden.