The Washington Post: Mass wildlife kills occur all the time, experts say
Hundreds of dead birds lay along the side of a Louisiana highway, about 300 miles south
of Beebe, Ark., where thousands of blackbirds fell from the sky three days earlier.
Photo credit: The New York Times
of Beebe, Ark., where thousands of blackbirds fell from the sky three days earlier.
Photo credit: The New York Times
It's death on a wide scale, biblical-type stuff: Millions of spot fish died last week in the Chesapeake Bay; red-winged blackbirds tumbled from the skies by the thousands in Arkansas and Kentucky over the holidays; and tens of thousands of pogies, drum fish, crab and shrimp went belly up in the summer in a Louisiana bayou.
For an explanation of these mysterious events, some have turned to Scripture or to the Mayan calendar, which suggests the world will end in 2012. But wildlife experts say these massive wildlife kills were not the result of a man-made disaster or a spooky sign of the apocalypse.
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- Audubon Magazine: Illegal Fireworks Likely Cause of Massive Arkansas Blackbird Deaths
- Huffington Post: Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Italy: Mass Animal Death Mystery Solved?
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 1/11/2011 11:33 AM 
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: mass wildlife kills chesapeake bay spot fish blackbird deaths devil crabs britian louisian bayou
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: mass wildlife kills chesapeake bay spot fish blackbird deaths devil crabs britian louisian bayou
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