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Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:23 pm
by SolkaTruesilver
Mikey wrote:SolkaTruesilver wrote:Mikey wrote:Obviously, the birds all ran into black helicopters.
Pff.. what a load of crap.
They probably simply were smitten by the clone of the Archangel Michel.
I did nothing of the sort.
Oh...
Then Aliens. Sionnah's article all but pointed that they collided with an alien starship hiding in the thunderstorm.
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 6:53 pm
by Angharrad
Snoopy on his doghouse! Wait, he likes birds.
Never mind.
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:21 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Royal_Foxx wrote:Snoopy on his doghouse! Wait, he likes birds.
Never mind.
It's Snoopy's neighbor's cat.
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:50 pm
by colmquinn
Did you count the
turtle doves in Italy in your crazy animal "stuff" count earlier? Though they do have the cheak to try give a logical explaination to this one
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:06 pm
by SolkaTruesilver
I did not counted it.
As I said earlier, when the count of weird animal stuff dying will reach 8 instances, I will start panicking. We are now up to 6, with the recent Dove Death.
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:40 pm
by colmquinn
It mentions fish kills and crab deaths in that one too so maybe we're at the 8 now.
(i'm not taking the piss here, I love a good old mystery as much as the next person but I do think a very boring explaination will be found for each case. I have great faith in scientific method taking the mystery out of everything).
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:08 pm
by Nickswitz
I have a feeling that we'll get a slightly interesting story as to how it happened, or possibly we will get nothing and it will go away. People forget after a while and stop asking questions.
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:54 pm
by colmquinn
Oh oh oh.I just thought of a good one, can we just blame the French?
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 5:52 pm
by Mikey
colmquinn wrote:Oh oh oh.I just thought of a good one, can we just blame the French?
Sure, we'll just say that they were trying to eat the birds. Nobody would bat an eye.
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:22 pm
by colmquinn
An explaination for one of the bird deaths recently, this one I like
Alcohol poisoning, not avian flu, killed Romanian birds
Birds that were thought to have died from avian flu in Romania instead apparently drank themselves to death.
Residents of Constanta in eastern Romania found dozens of dead starlings on the outskirts of the city on Saturday.
They alerted authorities, fearing the birds had died from avian flu.
But local veterinary officials decided the starlings had died after eating grape 'marc' - the leftovers from the wine-making process.
The head of the local sanitary and veterinary authority, Dvsva, told news agency Agerpres that analysis of the starlings' gizzards showed they had died from alcohol poisoning.
There have been a number of unexplained mass bird deaths recently in several countries, including the United States and Sweden.
Fireworks were blamed for the deaths of thousands of red-winged blackbirds in Arkansas, while in Sweden officials believe almost 100 jackdaws found dead in the centre of a town had simply been run over.
Source
So drunken birds, fireworks and road traffic accidents. Sounds like fun
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:59 pm
by Sonic Glitch
colmquinn wrote:An explaination for one of the bird deaths recently, this one I like
Alcohol poisoning, not avian flu, killed Romanian birds
Birds that were thought to have died from avian flu in Romania instead apparently drank themselves to death.
Residents of Constanta in eastern Romania found dozens of dead starlings on the outskirts of the city on Saturday.
They alerted authorities, fearing the birds had died from avian flu.
But local veterinary officials decided the starlings had died after eating grape 'marc' - the leftovers from the wine-making process.
The head of the local sanitary and veterinary authority, Dvsva, told news agency Agerpres that analysis of the starlings' gizzards showed they had died from alcohol poisoning.
There have been a number of unexplained mass bird deaths recently in several countries, including the United States and Sweden.
Fireworks were blamed for the deaths of thousands of red-winged blackbirds in Arkansas, while in Sweden officials believe almost 100 jackdaws found dead in the centre of a town had simply been run over.
Source
So drunken birds, fireworks and road traffic accidents. Sounds like fun
Must've been a helluva bird party somewhere recently.
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:18 pm
by Mark
"Never drink and fly."
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:26 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:46 pm
by Tyyr
And here I thought drinking was the only way to make flying tolerable these days.
Re: Flocks of birds dying
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:51 pm
by Mikey
That can't be the explanation in the American case - Arkansas birds were probably hatched and fledged able to hold their white lightning.