More strange mass bird deaths in Colorado

[BurtWorm]

Following die-offs in Esperance, Australia and Austin, Texas. Perhaps just coincidence.


http://www.longmontfyi.com/Local-Story.asp?id=14007


Bird deaths being investigated

By Ben Ready
The Daily Times-Call

LONGMONT — About 40 dead birds littered a short stretch of U.S. Highway 287 south of the city Tuesday.

Boulder County health officials and the Colorado Division of Wildlife were still coordinating efforts late afternoon to investigate the site, just south Mooring Road.

...

While farmers on granaries and feedlots have been known to poison starlings — a non-native species from Europe originally brought to America as pets — such cases are rare in Boulder County, Baeten said. Poisoned birds are generally found within a few miles of the site where they were poisoned, and in smaller numbers.

County health spokeswoman Chana Goussetis said West Nile virus is not an issue this time of year, and she doesn’t suspect any other kind of virus caused the die-off. Avian flu is carried by migratory birds, and starlings are not migratory, she said.

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Morley said he wouldn’t have reported the incident had his wife not mentioned a news report that Austin, Texas, shut down 10 city blocks after discovering dozens of dead birds there Monday. Esperance, a coastal town in West Australia, also reported Monday that several thousand birds mysteriously dropped dead out of the skies.

Health officials at both those locations have not yet determined the cause of the die-offs....

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Maybe they all crashed into a cloaked UFO?

[dogday]

5. I thought about that UFO sighting at Chicago

and these dead birds for real :tinfoilhat:

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Me too.

[WI_DEM]

2. hmm, this is a mystery worthy of Rod Serling or Hitchcock

[ellenfl]

8. or m. night shyamalan! eom

[originalpckelly]

3. OK, this is scary. WTF?

Why are all these damn birds dying?

[madmom]

4. they forgot where cheney's canned hunt was supposed to be, so

they still poisoned the birds so they could all look like great white hunters, but alas they are a no show.:shrug:

[Ian David]

Just a guess, but it could be the unusually warm weather, somehow.

Perhaps their usual food is fermenting in the sun, getting them drunk, and making them crash into stuff?

For example:

Drunken Flying Kills Birds in Sweden
Instead, birds feasting on fermented berries are getting drunk and playing chicken with the glass. Thousands of waxwings began gathering in the trees ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/01/17/MNbirds.DTL

[rebel with a cause]

7. Experimenting with chemical weapons?

Like Agent orange? And I don't mean terrorist!

[butterfly77]

11. This is what I was thinking...

[Blackhatjack]

9. Facts Are Terribly Difficult To Spin, And Dead Birds Even Moreso.....

Just because we do not know what killed the birds is no reason not to take these incidents seriously.

Often wildlife deaths are the warning alarms for people when it comes to new strains of viruses and illnesses.

Hope someone credible, like the CDC, is taking a close look at these events.

[BurtWorm]

10. The one in Australia really scares me.

But Austin and Colorado are a lot closer to me than Australia.

:scared:

[kestrel91316]

12. I suspect state wildlife veterinarians AND CDC are all over this.

They just aren't issuing hourly press releases about it.

[DearAbby]

13. There were reasons Miners used birds in the mines

when they died, you got the hell outta there. But when it is the entire planet...where do you go? :hide:

[helderheid]

14. EEEK!

:scared: