Massive Fish and Bird Deaths Worldwide Surrounding New Years
If you’ve been watching the news recently you’ve probably heard about at leaset one of the bizarre cases of massive deaths of both birds and fish. The first story came in right after the new year in Arkansas where thousands of red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky over a mile of land in a small town. Then only a hundred miles we learned of another massive death of fish, but again only a single species- drum. Neighboring Louisiana saw some 450 bird die littering an entire half-kilometer of highway.
Further to the south in Brazil some 15 tons of dead sardine, croaker and catfish have washed up along the coast. Across the pond 40,000 crabs died and washed ashore, though dead starfish, lobsters, sponges and anemones were also found, scientists claim that a severe drop in temperature could have been the cause. Even in Sweden 50 to 100 jackdaws (birds) were found dead.
There’s no doubt that these massive deaths around the world are mysterious, and some may never be truly explained, but after searching around I found an article that predicted massive bird deaths around the great lakes due to a widespread increase in botulism (google webcache link). We’ve certainly seen this happen close to home in the last few years where several carp species where infected with a form of herpes and begun washing up on shore of Lake Scugog.
Many sources are now reporting that they believe the bird deaths were caused by fireworks scaring large groups of birds from their nests late at night, those birds with the least adaptive night vision were the birds that died, crashing into buildings, cars, even the ground.
Really? fireworks, big bang? People have their heads in the sand. Wake up!!
Elena, have you got a better explanation? By all means please pull my head out of the sand if you’ve got a better idea of what happened. I really hope you’re not coming here to make an argument about the “end times”.
1st there were the plagues of Egypt and now this, weird stuff indeed!
Shame on the people who report such nonsense; and those who pass it along as fact. What is this world coming to where idiots are even considered nowledgable. I,ve seen alot of fireworks in my life but not many dead birds. SHAME!!!!
I totally agree, this is hilarious! Are we writing a children’s book?
Its very funny and disturbing when so many officials are giving explanations like a creative writing entry competition!?! So hard to pick the ‘most creative’ ‘mostly likely at a stretch of an imagination’ answer! Fireworks and loud noises, starvation, over eating sunflower seeds, poisoned seeds, hypothermia, low oxygen levels, poisonous algae, power lines, disease …?
For those interested in less fantasy here is a quick list of all the places that have had incidences of mass bird/fish deaths: Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Haiti, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
Copy and Paste this list to spread the message for each other because the media is not.
In more detail:
Brazil – Mysterious killing of fish in coastal
Canada
– Update 1 – 10,000s of Birds found dead in Manitoba
– Update 1 – Dead Birds and Fish reported in St. Clair River,
Ontario
Update 1 – Goldstream River, at Goldstream Provincial Park,
Victoria mysteriously turns bright green
Update 6 – Canadian farmer finds flock of dead birds in St.-
Augustin-de-Desmaures, west of Quebec City
Chile
Thousands of Birds fall from the sky in South America
China
Eagles and Birds are falling from the sky in China
Haiti
Mysterious fish kill prompts ban
Italy
Thousands of Doves are Dying
Update 3 – Birds Dying In Italy: Thousands Of Turtle Doves Fall Dead From Sky
Update 5 – Overeating and indigestion blamed for 1,000 turtle doves falling dead in Italy with strange blue stain on their beaks
Japan
Japan on alert after finding dead birds
New Zealand
Hundreds of snapper dead on beaches
Update 2 – Penguins, petrels and other seabirds, mass deaths
Philippines
Update 2 – Residents gather, eat dead fish floating in barangay Ibo
South Korea
Dead Teal Ducks With Bird Flu Strain Found In South Korea
South Africa
Mystery of dead birds on Cape roads
Sweden
50 birds were found dead
Hundreds of dead birds found in the middle of the road in
Sweden
Thailand
Update 6 – Bird deaths in U.S., Sweden, Britian, Thailand, Brazil and beyond
United Kingdom
Dead fish discovered in canal marina near Abergavenny
Update 1 – 40,000 ‘devil’ crabs found dead on the beach
Vietnam
Update 2 – Tonnes of farm fish found dead
United States of America
Arkansas
Nearly 3000 Dead Birds Fall From Arkansas Sky
First Birds Fall, Now 100000 Fish Dead in Arkansas
Update 4 – Not Just Birds and Fish but People Dropping Like Flies
Florida
Thousands Of Fish Dead In Spruce Creek
Illinois
Dead Birds Reported by Residents in Southern Illinois
Kentucky
Update 1 – Dead birds found in Kentucky, Sweden, as crabs wash up on U.K. shores in latest mass animal deaths
Louisiana
Mass La. bird deaths puzzle investigators
Dead Birds Fall From Sky AGAIN In Louisiana, 300 Miles From Arkansas Incident Days Earlier
Maryland
2 Million fish die in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
Michigan
Update 1 – Hundreds of Dead Fish Appear In Lincoln Park
North Carolina
Dead pelican count escalates in Topsail Beach
Update 1: Reward offered for information on what’s causing dead pelicans at Topsail Beach
Tennessee
Update 3 – Flock Of Birds Found Dead In Wilson County
Texas
Update 1 – Now East Texas also reports hundreds of dead birds
Update 1 – Experts in Texas are weighing in after large amounts of dead birds were reportedly found across the Country and around the World
Jan. 6, 2011
http://www.eutimes.net/2011/01/birds-and-fish-are-now-dying-all-around-the-world/