They have dead birds falling from the skies (twice in the last week) in Arkansas. They have <a href="dead birds in Louisiana and Kentucky too. And in Chile. And now in Sweden.
Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, residents found 50 to 100 jackdaws on a street in Falköping southeast of Skövde. The incident echoed a number of unexplained incidents earlier this week across the southern US.
County veterinarian Robert ter Horst believes that the birds may have been literally scared to death by fireworks set off on Tuesday night. […]
ter Horst noted that he has also received some reports about pigeons, but the incident has happened too quickly to assume that it is related to the untimely demise of the jackdaws.
The site where the birds were found has now been blocked for a veterinary inspection of the birds. Emergency services had cordoned off the area earlier on Wednesday.
Oh and the Japanese are worried about dead birds falling, too:
Japanese bird sanctuaries, poultry farms and zoos went on high alert last month after several species of migratory birds in different regions were found dead of what appeared to be H5N1 avian influenza.
Fireworks have been blamed. Power lines have been blamed. Lightning and hail have been blamed. Stupid bird tricks have been blamed. Unexplained internal bleeding has been blamed. Bird flu or other diseases have been blamed. The Antichrist has been blamed. Nostradamus has been blamed. All we know is that the people picking these dead birds up wear toxic protection suits that look like this one:
Meanwhile, don’t drink the water if you live in Arkansas — or in Brazil, New Zealand or Maryland, either. Just ask all the dead fish:
The Daily News reports that Maryland is now looking into massive fish deaths in Chesapeake Bay.
Dawn Stoltzfus, director of communications with Maryland’s Department of the Environment, said “We are seeing small/juvenile menhaden, croaker, spot fish dead, in very large fish kills… The numbers are estimated in the hundreds of the thousands at this point.”
Additionally, the Parana Online [Brazil] reports that 100 tons of dead fish, mainly sardines, were found on the beaches of Paranagua, Brazil Sunday. They have also begun to appear on the coasts of Pontal do Pontal do Parana, Guaraquecaba, and Antonina.
Furthermore, a ‘carpet’ of dead snapper has appeared on a New Zealand beach, according to the New Zealand Herald. On Tuesday, the New Zealand’s Ministry of Fisheries announced an investigation into the hundreds of dead snapper that washed up at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay. Fishery officials deemed the fish unsafe to eat and are investigating the mass deaths.
A more recent report by the Baltimore Sun places the fish kill in the Chesapeake Bay as high as Two Million. So far no one has blamed the dead fish on fireworks, so that’s something for which the fireworks industry can take comfort.
Maybe God is angry with us and the End Times really are here. Get your Rapture Ready plans finalized. Tim Tebow, we hardly knew ye.
Or maybe its just a coincidence. I sure don’t know. But I would like to get a straight answer from someone who does know soon.
We need to be careful that we don’t create the shark attack effect, where there is no increase in incidents but only an increase in reporting. But it does seem like something strange is going on and we need to know if it is all connected in some way.
Well, shark attack or not, I’m all for anything that punctuates the media inattention to environmental disasters unless they have the scope of a BP spill in the gulf. 2 million dead fish in the Chesapeake is nothing to sneeze at.
Not to mention stories about the bee collapse that rarely get the attention they deserve.
yeah, I agree with you.
Having similar events occur in various locations around the world? And happening to dissimilar organisms in profoundly different habitats? This is very very strange.
I’m totally freaked out
There is one and only one explanation: Zeus is a Democrat. He is NOT happy with Boehner.
Thanks for connecting some dots here, regardless of whether they turn out to be interconnected it seems wise to at least question the timing. It has seemed a little too convenient to label the birds traumatized by the fireworks and turn the page. Damn wussy birds anyway; guess I’m a little cynical when the messenger is blamed.
And as profound as the Iceland volcano was and the BP horrific spill I would (naively?) expect to see more of toxic buildups rather than sudden and gathering deaths.
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Was it lightning and thunder … the Nordic god Thor angry and ready to strike human kind for all its pollution on the face and depth of planet earth?
Never can explain the cancer clusters throughout the United States. While members of Congress and the Supreme Court do all to protect the rights of corporations, human kind is suffering on a scale previously thought only possible in an authoritarian state like the former Soviet Union, North Korea and China.
Europe has done its share to end pollution of the great Rhine River, previously dumping waste materials into the North Sea and along the coastline of the Netherlands. Now the Atlantic salmon is granted passage upstream to spawn.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
No, as I explained above, it is Zeus, he is a Democrat, and he hates Boehner. Of course, he REALLY hates Tom Coburn, Mitch McConnell, …. hell, he hates all of the those rat-fucking turd bastards.