Posted on 01/05/2011 10:39:40 AM PST by TaraP
STOCKHOLM (AFP) – In a week that saw unexplained massive bird deaths in the southern United States, up to 100 birds were found lying in a snow-covered street in Sweden Wednesday, officials said.
"Most were dead," Christer Olofsson of rescue services in the southwestern town of Falkoeping said of the 50 to 100 jackdaw birds, a type of crow.
Ornithologist Anders Wirdheim said the find was surprising.
"This is unusual," he told tabloid Aftonbladet, which posted online a reader's photo of dozens of black birds littering a snow-covered road.
"They are probably jackdaws. They spend the winter in large flocks. If they are exposed to disturbances, they can become so stressed that they fly themselves to death," he said.
Olofsson told AFP the birds were first spotted around midnight by a police patrol, and that five had been taken in for analysis.
Olov Andersson of the National Veterinary Institute told news agency TT the carcasses would be analysed and that bacterial and viral tests, including for swine flu, would be performed.
The Falkoeping incident comes after two unexplained mass bird deaths in the United States.
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The year of the cat?
The poles don’t swap ends. Those graphics they show you don’t really exist. It’s all statistical, non-observed claptrap.
It is winter and there has been unusually cold weather across the planet.
Yeah, I caught that, too. Wonder why they didn’t go with “avian flu”? Sheesh.
Did you see the China one an Eagle fell from the sky and hit a guy they are talking about the electro magnetic pole.
Google translation snippet...
“There may be and the polarity of the magnetic field changes related to conversion, according to Indian newspaper reports, Hyderabad (Hyderabad), a company in 2012, researchers predicted that the Earth and the Sun’s magnetic poles will reverse. Earth’s magnetic reversal Earth’s magnetic field is the occurrence of the Arctic and Antarctic swap, in the course of the earth will experience at some point in time there is no magnetic field in the state.”
http://www.chou4.com/ky/showArticle.htm?topTypeId=62&articleId=3449
A-well-a everybody’s heard about the bird
B-b-b-bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word
A-well-a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word
A-well-a don’t you know about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!
One bird, just before he died, was heard to say “Keyser Söze.”
The birds have been chirping outside my sister’s bedroom window in Orange County, NY, since she moved there four years ago. Only they start at 2:30 am on the dot.
One of the birds whispered “Follow Obama’s birth certificate, therein lies the key ...”
I wonder if thier were Massive Bird deaths in the last Ice Age.....
I’m thinking some government has a very neat new death ray that they are playing with.
I’m with you.
I find it to be very troubling, HOWEVER, I realize how the MSM will suddenly get their marching orders from higher up the food chain and will all jump all over an event, making it look like something that has never happened before and getting everyone all atwitter.
Look at what they have done the past few years with the various flu “epidemics.”
I still don’t know what to think about the whole oil spill story. THey kept contradicting themselves, now they are saying “all is well.” That is BS! Either they were lying in the beginning or they are lying now.
Therefore, I have to wonder if this type of thing (bird deaths) happens every time we have some particularly cold weather and whether the media is suddenly jumping on it, setting us up to pass globull warming legislation.
Remember, there is ALWAYS AN AGENDA for EVERY msm story!
Always! Every story!
..maybe we’re not logged in?
Zephaniah 1:3
“I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble when I cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
No, they would have been localized stories that would have faded in a day.
With global communication, these things can be put together.
It's likely just a couple of isolated occurrences with no connection.
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