So what is up with the dead wildlife? Every winter sees some of this, but not five thousand birds in a square mile. Opinions?
I bet this is one of those things that is common but the media is now going with it and now everyone is out there trying to find these things. The world is a huge place.
Granny says, "Dat's right - its the Aflockalypse... Aflockalypse now? Turns out mass bird deaths are quite common. January 7, 2011 Washington - Aflockalypse: Despite alarming headlines about dead birds plummeting from the sky, biologists say that mass die-offs happen all the time, and do not necessarily augur catastrophe, either biblical or environmental, or any kind of 'aflockalypse.'
This is what I think. I went to school in Erie, PA and every spring, there would be thousands of dead fish that would wash up on the shore of the beach. Turns out the city dumps plowed snow into the lake. The snow has all the salt from the roads and the lake is freshwater. Added to that, the city is on a hill, that slopes down to the lake, so the rain washes everything down into the lake. The media is hunting for these stories just to get people to watch. "oh no, the world is coming to an end....look at all these dead birds and fish!!" In a month we'll never here any more of this as they'll be reporting on some other "at the moment" story.
Hundreds Of Dead Birds Along Alabama Highway... 300 black birds found dead along I-65 Jan 12, 2011 As drivers whiz by the Huntsville-Browns Ferry Road exit on I-65 North, specks of black in the stark white snow are pretty hard to miss. See also: 200 Dead Cows Found In Wisconsin January 15, 2011 - 200 dead cows found on farm in Stockton And... 100 Dead Fish In Wales 14 Jan 2011 - MORE dead animals have continued to show up today - as 100 dead FISH add to the toll.
This just happened in my town too: This story claims they where hit by a truck: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/01/11/new-dead-bird-mystery-investigated-in-geyserville/
How does this account for the blunt force trauma of the birds in Arkansas?... Bye Bye Blackbird: USDA acknowledges a hand in one mass bird death January 20, 2011 - One in a series of mysterious mass bird deaths in the past month was the product of a USDA avicide program, which began as operation Bye Bye Blackbird in the 1960s.
Granny says it's just like dem plagues in Revelation - we all gonna die... Animal-Related Diseases Concern Scientists January 04, 2012 : Health researchers and wildlife biologists say the number of infectious diseases that have jumped the boundary from animals to humans and between animal species is on the rise. Scientists believe the increase may be a result of more frequent contact between humans and wild animals, as well as the growing trade in wild animals, both legal and illegal.
Global warmin' killin' all the fish... Thousands of fish die as central US streams heat up Tue, Aug 07, 2012 - Thousands of fish are dying in the central US as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 38°C.
'Something Strange Is Happening'... Birds are falling from the sky, fish are floating up dead February 14, 2013 - Most people read the papers, forget most and get on with the day. Few people see the patterns; the big picture of what is happening in the world. One of the things that has been happening with greater and greater frequency is large and mysterious animal deaths. Something that punsters call flockalypse (as in apocalypse or the end of the world). A map has come out in Google showing the die offs in 2010/2011.
Now Vietnam expects us to help them with their problems... Vietnamese Demand White House Probe of Mass Fish Deaths May 03, 2016 - Nearly 140,000 Vietnamese nationals have signed a petition urging the Obama administration to launch an independent investigation into "an environmental disaster" that caused mass fish kills along Vietnam's central coast.