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Mass La. bird deaths puzzle investigators
The (Baton Rouge) Advocate ^ | Decemeber 4 | KORAN ADDO

Posted on 01/04/2011 7:21:18 AM PST by PghBaldy

LABARRE — Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists drove over and around them.

State biologists are trying to determine what led to the deaths of the estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings on La. 1 just down the road from Pointe Coupee Central High School.

The discovery of the dead birds — some of which were lying face down, clumped in groups, while others were face up with their wings outstretched and rigid legs pointing upward — comes just three days after more than 3,000 blackbirds rained down from the sky in Beebe, Ark.

(Excerpt) Read more at 2theadvocate.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blackbirds; deadbirds; fall; investigators; massdying; puzzles; redwinged; sky
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To: SunnyUsa

Me too! The Ark bird kill was weird enough, and now this. This should have a reasonable explanation...and weather ain’t it...


41 posted on 01/04/2011 8:50:38 AM PST by devane617 (NEVER feed your cats canned Tuna fish. Mercury poisoning.)
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To: PghBaldy
"of which were lying face down, clumped in groups, while others were face up with their wings outstretched and rigid legs pointing upward"

Oh noes! Some were face-down while others were face up? Definitely proves a consipracy.

42 posted on 01/04/2011 9:00:00 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Punish Success, Reward Failure. Destroying America is the point.)
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To: PghBaldy

It seems that the Canadians are experiencing a similar problem.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/336/601/10,000s_of_Birds_found_dead_in_Manitoba.html
tens of thousands of birds are dropping dead.
They at least have tested the birds and found the problem. Avian Flu.


43 posted on 01/04/2011 9:12:03 AM PST by BuffaloJack (The Recession is officially over. We are now into Obama's Depression.)
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To: PghBaldy

“Tell Billie I said, `bye-bye blackbird’.”


44 posted on 01/04/2011 9:16:58 AM PST by tumblindice (Think about it, but don't hurt yourself)
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To: BuffaloJack

Interesting...

America is saying the birds died from fireworks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110104/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_dead_birds


45 posted on 01/04/2011 9:18:50 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: TaraP; 444Flyer; SunkenCiv; Nachum; mojitojoe; STARWISE; LucyT

ping


46 posted on 01/04/2011 9:22:42 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: davisfh

“This happened when the severe weather cells were passing through the area.”

I used to be a serious hang glider pilot. At a meet in Italy... several hang gliders were sucked into a giant cumulonimbus cloud that came through the area. The pilots were sucked up to 60,000 ft, suffocated, charred by lightning, frozen and deposited on the ground approximately 60 miles away. This type of accident has caused the deaths of numerous hang glider and paraglider pilots over the years. I am sure that even birds who obviously have better flying instincts than people have suffered the same fate on occassion.


47 posted on 01/04/2011 9:25:59 AM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: PghBaldy

A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of animals in Arkansas this past week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k679FjX8-PI&feature=uploademail


48 posted on 01/04/2011 9:41:06 AM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: UCANSEE2

I agree... ;)


49 posted on 01/04/2011 9:51:28 AM PST by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: scan59
but Alex Jones has been at the front of the 9-11 conspiracy movement (Bush did it!), and I just cannot get past that.

I think saying "Bush did it" simplifies things. He believes it was a "globalist" sponsored attack using Islamic terrorist by proxy. I don't think that is too crazy of an assessment.

I don't know how anyone can look at what has transpired in our country in the last 15 years, especially the last two, and not come to the conclusion that we are seeing about the top 1/5th of the iceberg. Something's afoot and it isn't freedom and life as we once knew it.

50 posted on 01/04/2011 10:06:03 AM PST by riri
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To: All

May be Pesticide. It happened before. Early 70’s we put Furidan(Purple Bag) on fields waiting to be planted to kill ground puppies. Boy did it work they came to the surface and died.

Then the problems started. Birds especially the Martins would eat the ground puppies and guess what the fields were covered with birds as well.

no one wanted to blame the insecticde it worked to well and was approved for putting on Crops for Human consumption.


51 posted on 01/04/2011 10:30:20 AM PST by Bailee
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To: PghBaldy

Now it’s being linked to this...

Is The New Madrid Fault Earthquake Zone Coming To Life?

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/is-the-new-madrid-fault-earthquake-zone-coming-to-life


52 posted on 01/04/2011 11:10:17 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori">)
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To: Travis McGee

Ping.


53 posted on 01/04/2011 11:58:04 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: mojitojoe

later read bump


54 posted on 01/04/2011 12:08:15 PM PST by Dust in the Wind (U S Troops Rock)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Drudge isn’t the only main stream news site that links to conspiracy sites check this out...

Dead fish, dead birds and doomsday: Why are blackbirds dying and fish washing ashore?

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/Dead+fish+dead+birds+doomsday+blackbirds+dying+fish+washing+ashore/4058472/story.html#ixzz1A6DicQi1


55 posted on 01/04/2011 12:13:02 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori">)
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To: PghBaldy
Residual effects of the bad weather, very bad weather, that we had come through last week. 26 tornadoes, hail, lots of lightening and strong winds reported all up and down the frontal passage.
Occam's razor type explanation.
56 posted on 01/04/2011 12:13:17 PM PST by The Cajun
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To: PghBaldy

I’m still waiting on some nutbag to claim this is a sign of the end times.


57 posted on 01/04/2011 1:17:24 PM PST by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Well...we ARE all gonna die..!


58 posted on 01/04/2011 1:18:46 PM PST by brytlea
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To: fireman15

I think you’re right, it could happen. I think tho it odd tho, to have several such incidents all of a sudden, altho maybe it’s a more common occurrence than we know and now it’s just being reported. *shrug*.


59 posted on 01/04/2011 1:27:24 PM PST by brytlea
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To: FromLori

Well, and not that I necessarily believe this, but a thought that came to mind...what would it look like before the magnetic poles flipped? Would there be disturbances that would confuse the birds’ ability to navigate?


60 posted on 01/04/2011 1:33:20 PM PST by brytlea
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