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Thursday, January 6, 2011

I say Bullshit!

If you read my earlier article on this subject, you will see why I find this story a load of bunk...


Madison lab solves mystery of Arkansas blackbird die-off

The mystery of the deaths of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas this month has been solved.
They died of blunt-force trauma, according to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison. Samples of the blackbirds - and other blackbirds from a separate mass die-off about the same time in Louisiana - were brought to the little-known laboratory on Madison's west side for necropsies.
"They died of impact force to their bodies," said Scott Wright, chief of disease investigations at the center.
He said the birds clearly showed signs of bruises and hemorrhaging.
About 3,000 blackbirds died on New Year's Eve. Fireworks probably sent them flying from their roost sites.
"It's believed that the noise startled them - they are poor night fliers - and they were in close proximity to neighborhoods, and they flew into homes and cars," Wright said.
A separate incident near Baton Rouge involving about 450 blackbirds is still under investigation by the center, Wright said.
"I think the two events are a coincidence," Wright said.
He said large-scale deaths of birds and other species are not as uncommon as people think.
For blackbirds alone, there have been 16 incidents in which 1,000 or more birds have died in single events over the past five years, he said.

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