'Catastrophic': Now thousands of birds fall from sky

World Net Daily ^ | 1-9-07 | 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

[Robert A Cook PE]

>> The dead birds ... more likely they had been poisoned, possibly deliberately, or affected by near-freezing weather. <<

That's what *I* call a cold front!


It's er, uhm, (phrasing it delicately to the writer) ... Mid-summer in Perth, Australia.

[Some hope remaining.]

Or maybe there are other animals dying too but, unlike the birds, they aren't flying to areas where they are being found.

[concerned about politics]

Except for bats...but that's beside the point.

Darn it. Scratch the "only species that can fly" theory. It isn't working very well, is it?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Very mysterious.

[old gringo]

ever smell nj. at low tide?

[Fierce Allegiance]

Certainly sounds plausible. The effects would be very short term though, it would disperse pretty quickly.

[Fawn]

Something for Rushbo to talk about....maybe he has the answer?

[null and void]

Would a belch of methane be able to do something like killing a flock of airborne birds?

Hmmmmmmm. I suppose so. Simple asphyxiation of a critter under the high oxygen demands of active flight, if nothing else?

[Andonius_99]

Paging Mr. Kanye West, Paging Mr. Kanye West! Please pick up the white phone.

George Bush does not care about blackbirds!

[concerned about politics]

Would a belch of methane be able to do something like killing a flock of airborne birds?

Methyl mercaptan - Alternative Name: Methanethiol (HazMap)

[sarasota]

Of course not. What I mean is, since air particles disperse quickly, how could testing after finding dead birds provide any clues?

[MHGinTN]

I'm familiar with this sulfur based chemical used in Propane and natural gas to give it a scent. I'm wondering if a methane cloud ... methane is a natural bi-product of organic matter decay and can belch from lakebottoms and seeps from swamps. The sudden release of methane can occur where there are large beds of methane hydrates.

[Dixie Yooper]

A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.

Ask me a riddle and I reply:

Cottlestone, cottlestone, cottlestone pie

Sounds like an Ernest T. Bass quote!

[Dixie Yooper]

George Bush hates Mulder. He likes Scully, but he hates Mulder.

[null and void]

A carbon dioxide bubble from some nearby body of water would explain a large kill-off of diverse species.

But CO₂ is ground hugging, CH₄ is lighter than air.

A methane-hydride boil would explain bird deaths, without corresponding ground bound species deaths, and Perth is right on the Indian Ocean coast.

[dangus]

Well, no WONDER the birds got sick!!!

[dangus]

>> Those precious birds are God's little creatures, IMHO. <<

True, dat... but to VKs, they are MREs.

[Fawn]

Would it cause the birds to convulse?

[null and void]

Methyl mercaptan - Alternative Name: Methanethiol (HazMap)

Brand name: Stinko

[Dixie Yooper]

Darn it. Scratch the "only species that can fly" theory. It isn't working very well, is it?

Don't be too hard on yourself, it was less than a year ago that I proved myself to not know much about Chemistry to a few fellow Freepers.