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M. Perk Loyal user Hilton Head Island 292 Posts |
Every time I hear a loud boom, I see birds scatter and fly away, not have a heart attack and drop dead.
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AsL Special user 680 Posts |
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On 2011-01-04 19:07, ringmaster wrote: Uh oh. If that's the case, you can void my guess... |
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edh Inner circle 4698 Posts |
I'll go with the end of times scenario.
Magic is a vanishing art.
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
God smote them because Arkansas was a Jezebel.
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ropeadope Elite user Mississippi 453 Posts |
Bbbaaadaaaadd Mojo !
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Nothing is better than more.
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magicalaurie Inner circle Ontario, Canada 2962 Posts |
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On 2011-01-04 18:22, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: I'd like to see them making the distinction more clearly, then, if they're able. That was one of my initial questions. Some are saying they're not sure... so I'd like to see more on that point. I'd like to learn more. And more on the Louisiana birds- they seem to be fairly "certain" there's no link. Or they haven't yet found a link. How credible are the statements these "experts" are making? Massive bird kills happen sometimes, I'm aware. Apparently the fish kill's not related, either. Interesting story- I'll be following it. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On 2011-01-04 19:54, magicalaurie wrote: Me too. John
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AsL Special user 680 Posts |
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On 2011-01-04 19:24, M. Perk wrote: Lol. You hear a lot of loud booms that are within a few feet of flocks of birds? The next batch of birds in La killed my theory but where in the heck do you live? |
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts |
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
I won't forget you Robert. |
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts |
Is that genuine? Or conspiracy ramblings?
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
I won't forget you Robert. |
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ropeadope Elite user Mississippi 453 Posts |
Of course it`s consiracy ramblings gdw. It`s an anti-American newspaper, so are the communistic and anti-American responses attached to the article.
John
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irossall Special user Snohomish, Washington 529 Posts |
Sounds to me like it is time to outlaw all use of Fireworks, including commercial displays.
This is the obvious solution to this problem. Actualy it is a good idea to outlaw everything that can scare any animal to death. Iven
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gdw Inner circle 4884 Posts |
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On 2011-01-06 07:05, irossall wrote: This is often the exact mentality of many people whenever there is a "problem" much smaller than this one even. If people can see the above as a silly route to go, and no a reasonable solution, how come they ttake the exact same route when they find tv commercials to loud? Hell, imagine the majority of those who don't mind such an idea have never, themselves, had a problem with the volume, but they figure, "yeah, that's probably a good idea. Even though there's never been any reason to think it would happen, they could have a commercial come on blaring and damage my ears."
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/articl......aly?bn=1
Hundreds of lifeless turtle doves “hung from trees like Christmas balls” through an Italian city in the latest mass death of animals across the globe, an animal-rights group reports. The World Wildlife Fund-Italy scooped up 300 birds, with blue-stained beaks, from across the city of Faenza for analysis, GeaPress reported Friday. The state forestry department collected other dead or nearly dead specimens that had lain “in heaps in the flower beds (or) crushed in the streets.” The blue stain, GeaPress reported, “is a sign of hypoxia, caused by suffocation” but could also be potassium cyanide, a poison used by poachers. “Never before this year” has a mass death such as this happened, said WWF Italy president Giorgio Tramonti. Pollution controls on industry in the region are poor, he said, and the dove deaths are “not normal.” Italy’s tumbling turtle doves joined a mountain of dead animals piling up from New Zealand to Sweden, as a new Google map plotting the carnage shows. The phenomenon started on New Year’s Eve with thousands of red-winged blackbirds dropping from the skies over Beebe, Ark. From there, it was 40,000 crabs washing up on chalk reefs off Kent, England, dead penguins and petrels in New Zealand, 50 to 100 jackdaws on a street in Falköping, Sweden, 150 tonnes of farmed red tilapia in Vietnam, and about 100 tonnes of sardines and catfish on the beaches of Paranagua, Brazil. “It’s like a plane crash,” Canadian conservation expert Steven Price told the Star in explaining the sudden public fascination with mass animal deaths. “The reports are dramatic,” he said. “It’s a natural human response to be concerned. If we feel badly, and most people do about these deaths, let’s go where the suffering is the greatest.” At least 50 million birds die every year in North America from the combined threat of colliding with buildings, pesticides and predator cats — all preventable deaths, said Price, senior director of conservation science and practice of the World Wildlife Fund Canada. “Because they happen in ones and twos,” the deaths don’t attract the same attention, he said. Washington Post writer Melissa Bell has coined the name Aflockalypse for the reported mass deaths, which are largely concentrated in the United States and Europe. The Arkansas birds “died of impact force to their bodies,” said Scott Wright, chief of disease investigations at the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisc. Fireworks probably startled them from their perches. “It's believed that the noise startled them — they are poor night flyers — and they were in close proximity to neighbourhoods, and they flew into homes and cars,” Wright told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Fireworks and cold weather were also traced to the Swedish bird kill, and being “spooked by a boat (or) a bald eagle” sent hundreds of mud hens in Texas to their deaths. “People get a little bit nervous,” said Texas parks and wildlife biologist Charlie Muller. “It happens every year again, generally not that many birds, (but) nothing out of the ordinary.”
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
More about the thousands of dead turtle doves (with pictures and eyewitness reports):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-......bay.html
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Saw something similar in the morning paper. Not very exciting, but pretty much what you would expect.
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I was in the bay area and the news had a teaser about the bird droppings (hah!). I watched the news to see what the expert had to say...I swear this is what the conversation was with the news person:
News person: What is the cause of the birds dying in mass? Dr. type woman: There are many causes it could be, it isn't likely something mysterious though NP: So what would you say? Dr.: I'd have to see the reports first That was it! The bird expert seemed confused and ambushed by the whole encounter. |
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Josh the Superfluous Inner circle The man of 1881 Posts |
The also calmly say "It's actually quite common, just not in these numbers.". Too bad, it's the numbers thing that has me worried.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2011-01-07 23:36, Josh the Superfluous wrote: Indeed. Also, that fellow was only speaking in terms of the Texas incident. I'd like to see some discussion in an article about how common these mass deaths really are.
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RS1963 Inner circle 2734 Posts |
I'm not even really sure this all really happened. I mean there hasn't been that much more about it in the news. At least not as far as I can tell at this moment. I'm very skeptical that it happened at all. If it really did happen why hasn't any member on here that lives in Ark posted about it? Come on with all the members on board there has to be at least one magician from Ark that is a member of the Café. I would even bet there is more than one that is from there. Yes I know one poster said he lived near that area but that was all.
Yes I know this story made national and international headlines but I'm not convinced of the validity of it. There hasn't been anyone from Louisiana that has posted on here about this either so hmmmmmmmm..... |
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