Hundreds of dead blackbirds found near New Roads (Louisiana)

[IScreamSundays]

Source: WBRZ.com

LABARRE, La. - Around 500 dead blackbirds and starlings have been found in Pointe Coupee Parish, according to state wildlife officials.

The birds were spotted lying in roads and ditches near Labarre Elementary School. The community is between Morganza and New Roads on Highway 10.

Scientists from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries have been sent out to collect samples, which will be sent for testing to the University of Georgia and National Wildlife Center in Wisconsin.

Read more: http://www.wbrz.com/news/hundreds-of-dead-blackbirds-found-near-new-roads/

[LEW]

1. Wow

How did those fireworks from Arkansas reach Louisiana?

[valerief]

3. Must be echoes from the New Year's Eve's booms. B = blackbirds P = perch. nt

[lonestarnot]

2. Poison water is my guess.

[live love laugh]

12. Or poison fish from the BP oil catastrophe (I avoided using the word "spill" b/c it wasn't one) nt

[hedgehog]

4. One possibility I haven't seen mentioned yet - that someone deliberately

put out poison. Lots of people get annoyed at large flocks of blackbirds, starlings and crows. Auburn, New York had the dubious distinction of sponsoring a crow shoot a few years back.

The reports I read would indicate the birds in Arkansas suffered traumatic injury, then fell from the sky.

[JDPriestly]

5. This is very sad. I saw a blackbird displaying its stunning

red wing markings here in my backyard in LA last summer-fall. I was surprised to see it in my backyard in the city, but then perhaps I just missed earlier visits.

Beautiful, elegant birds.

[hedgehog]

7. I love my redwings - they are a sure sign of Spring up here!

I even love the starlings - they are fun to watch as individuals, and the huge flocks are amazing to see in motion. How can I be a snob - I'm not a native to North America, either!

[FirstLight]

6. COREXIT

home long before someone tests for this? or is it going to be buried by the media because of corporate interests...?

ugh, the gulf poisioning continues to spread

[femrap]

8. That was my first thought....

this Corexit has ended up in a water area where all the birds bathed and drank. I'd bet $$$$ on it.

I hate greedy corporate boyz.....a lot.

[oxymoron]

9. Blunt force trauma

The birds in Arkansas appear to have been killed by a hailstorm.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/68363/title/Arkansas_birds_died_of_trauma

[global1]

10. Tinfoil Hat Time - Is Someone Testing Out A New Weapon?.......

died of massive blunt trauma.......hmmmmmmm

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

11. Same thing in Arkansas?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4681979&mesg_id=4681979

[Renew Deal]

13. The end is near

:hide:

[Dover]

14. Suspicious. Three years ago, almost to the day, a similar bird kill happened in Austin, TX.

That was determined to be a combination of cold and a virus. Pretty flimsy explanations, all.

And in fact, the one this New Years Eve in Arkansas was said to have happened right as the clock struck 12 which is even more suspicious than the obvious weirdness of the bird fall.

My first thought is, what is the government testing now?

[hedgehog]

15. So, a secret government agency tests its new superweapon

on a flock of birds over a populated area at Midnight on New year's Eve?


Not much of a disguise......

[Dover]

19. Well, maybe they count on people like you who simply dismiss it without questioning.

That said, without an independent media who is willing to ask the hard questions and probe stories like this, along with followups and connecting dots, all we can do is speculate and/or accept what we're told. The incident in Austin was explained as a combination of cold and parasites. No further details from that 'lab' at Texas A&M.


Our military has weaponry that could conceivable do something like this while not harming humans. Like microwave-type weaponry whose strength can be regulated, or something along those lines.


US to Use Microwave Weapons

A microwave beam weapon is not a fantasy nowadays, it really exists.
It works in the following way: the so-called active denial system (ADS) projects microwave-like radiation even for more than 500 yards.

http://gadgets.infoniac.com/a-microwave-beam-weapon.html


And there are all kinds of weather manipulations being experimented with. Not something I'd think they would be advertising.

I just feel in this case that something like that's more likely than natural forces. Only speculation.

[crikkett]

16. do you have a reference to the "stroke of midnight" angle on this story?

Thanks for the tip about Austin, too.

[Dover]

18. I believe I heard that from my local Austin news (I think I was watching KVUE)

But I'm guessing that information showed up in other places, print or e-news.

On edit: Here's a CNN story that mentions the time:

Arkansas game officials probe mystery of falling birds
January 02, 2011|By the CNN Wire Staff

More than 1,000 blackbirds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year's Eve.Arkansas game officials hope testing scheduled to begin Monday will solve the mystery of why up to 5,000 birds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year's Eve.

The birds -- most of which were dead -- were red-winged blackbirds and starlings, and they were found within a one-mile area of Beebe, about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said. ..cont'd

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-02/us/arkansas.falling.birds_1_dead-birds-sick-bird-national-wildlife-health-center?_s=PM:US

[arcane1]

17. I remember reading about some bird species in the US..

and back in the early 20th century(?) they were mostly killed off because people were shooting the flocks with these special projectiles, like several steel balls on the end of chains...? I can't recall the name of the weapon or the names of the birds, but I wonder if this was something similar?