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5000 birds and 100,000 fish suddenly die in Arkansas

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Points of mass die offs.


Edit: Here's a picture of our jet stream
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You can see the east coast is the most concentrated area of die offs. The stream seems to carry an upward curve to Europe which just so happens to be the second most concentrated area of incidents. Maybe we hit some sort of gas well through oil exploration?

The gas would probably float to the atmosphere and then float back down in various different areas of Earth which is why we see random points of mass die offs.

You think a gas leak could do this? The birds have liquified internal organs and are dying from blunt trauma force. That doesn't sound like gas to me.

But I do commend you for the nice work/theory. It's better than anything I've got.
 
You think a gas leak could do this? The birds have liquified internal organs and are dying from blunt trauma force. That doesn't sound like gas to me.

But I do commend you for the nice work/theory. It's better than anything I've got.

Good point.

I think if the birds were flying high enough they would sustain pretty heavy injuries when hitting a concrete street. Probably not if they were falling from a perch in a tree. Also the fish do not seem to have sustained internal or external trauma except that they were missing their eyes. I think that's a result of lack of oxygen. The eyes are the first thing to go when decaying.

There's also the issue of it happening in rivers, which could not be contributed to oil exploration. We do however, have a major natural gas environmental problem that is well documented and has actually shut down communities. There's even a river that you can actually light on fire although I forget where it is. There's a documentary called "Gasland" that shows how these natural gas drilling operations are ruining whole towns.

This doesn't explain how fish are dying off in the ocean. If there's been recent Earthquakes, that could cause deep pockets of gas to escape throughout various ways.

Fish can handle quite a bit of toxins in their systems which is why its safer to stay away from bigger fish but gas will displace oxygen and kill them off almost instantaneously. Same with birds. If a fish or bird were to fly or swim through a pocket of gaseous air or water, they would die.

When breathing in any sort of gas, you will first pass out from no oxygen and then die of suffocation. Sounds like these birds inhaled the displaced air, fell out of the sky and died on impact (although a few were still hobbling around and some of the locales are trying to get them back to health).
 
Good point.

I think if the birds were flying high enough they would sustain pretty heavy injuries when hitting a concrete street. Probably not if they were falling from a perch in a tree. Also the fish do not seem to have sustained internal or external trauma except that they were missing their eyes. I think that's a result of lack of oxygen. The eyes are the first thing to go when decaying.

There's also the issue of it happening in rivers, which could not be contributed to oil exploration. We do however, have a major natural gas environmental problem that is well documented and has actually shut down communities. There's even a river that you can actually light on fire although I forget where it is. There's a documentary called "Gasland" that shows how these natural gas drilling operations are ruining whole towns.

This doesn't explain how fish are dying off in the ocean. If there's been recent Earthquakes, that could cause deep pockets of gas to escape throughout various ways.

Fish can handle quite a bit of toxins in their systems which is why its safer to stay away from bigger fish but gas will displace oxygen and kill them off almost instantaneously. Same with birds. If a fish or bird were to fly or swim through a pocket of gaseous air or water, they would die.

When breathing in any sort of gas, you will first pass out from no oxygen and then die of suffocation. Sounds like these birds inhaled the displaced air, fell out of the sky and died on impact (although a few were still hobbling around and some of the locales are trying to get them back to health).

Again, sound theory, better than anything I can rationalize, although I still remain skeptical. The mass amounts/locations and timing of everything is just too odd.
 
All I know is I'm not eating any fish until this fishy situation is solved.

By the way.....est. 2 million fish came up dead in Maryland. The final conclusion? Cold Water.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7056BB20110106


(Reuters) - The death of two million fish that washed up on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland appears to have been caused by a sudden drop in temperature, the state's Environment Department told Reuters on Thursday.

The mass kill is the latest in a string of bird and fish deaths around the world. Around 5,000 birds fell out of the Arkansas sky over the New Year's weekend and many dead fish were also found in a different part of the state.

Since then, reports of smaller-scale die-offs have been reported in Europe, Brazil, and Asia, causing many to speculate about the cause of the kills.

There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for the Chesapeake deaths, the Maryland Department of Environment said.

"The cause of this appears to be the rapid temperature drop combined with the large population of the juvenile spot fish," spokesman Jay Apperson told Reuters on Thursday.

The coldest December in 25 years caused cold water stress to the already overpopulated species, the department said in a statement.

There have been many such incidents in the past with 2,900 kills afflicting all fish species between 1984 and 2009 according to the department. The largest ever die-off was around 15 million in January, 1976.

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in North America.

(Reporting by Wendell Marsh, Editing by Greg McCune)

(wendell.marsh@thomsonreuters.com)
 
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All I know is I'm not eating any fish until this fishy situation is solved.

By the way.....est. 2 million fish came up dead in Maryland. The final conclusion? Cold Water.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7056BB20110106

Hmm. My only skepticism with that is that there are die offs in summer countries and continents such as Australia.

Also, there are no die offs in on the Northern West Coast but on the East coast there's many. Even the Southern East Coast which expands from Florida to Texas.
 
Fuck...new reports have 3 Kharlos Seagulls just dropping out of the sky in the California area.
 
It continues...

By Mirror.co.uk 7/01/2011

Thousands of turtle doves have rained down from the skies on an Italian town in the latest mass animal deaths sweeping the world.

The bodies of the birds, with a mysterious blue tinge to their beaks, crashed down on roofs of homes and cars in Faenza, near Ravenna in northern Italy.

For the last five days wildlife experts and officers from the forestry commission have picked up more than 1,000 turtle doves as well as other birds including pigeons.

Today alone 300 corpses were recovered with all of them having a blue tinge to their beaks which scientists say indicates poisoning or hypoxia which is lack of oxygen which can confuse animals.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-...-animal-deaths-115875-22832765/#ixzz1AMbQcT6c
 
2012 is approaching, everything is dieing! I don't believe in that, but whats with everything dieing? Kind of Scary!
 
FACT CHECK: Mass bird, fish deaths occur regularly

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – 54 mins ago

WASHINGTON – First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world. Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the "aflockalypse" while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental.

The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated.

Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other.

"They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery.

In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California.

On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada.

"Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said.

Weather — cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year's Eve when the birds fell out of the sky — is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths.

So what's happening this time?

Blame technology, says famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. With the Internet, cell phones and worldwide communications, people are noticing events, connecting the dots more.

"This instant and global communication, it's just a human instinct to read mystery and portents of dangers and wondrous things in events that are unusual," Wilson told The Associated Press on Thursday. "Not to worry, these are not portents that the world is about to come to an end."

Wilson and the others say instant communications — especially when people can whip out smart phones to take pictures of critter carcasses and then post them on the Internet — is giving a skewed view of what is happening in the environment.

The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said.

I think the last line is the one that is most poignant, and if there was a message in all of this hysteria, this should be it.
 
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I think the last line is the one that is most poignant, and if there was a message in all of this hysteria, this should be it.

They do occur on a regular basis but not concurrent with one another with so many different species involved.

The last line just shows the writers opinion about how we're more concerned with ourselves. Tells me all I need to know about why he or she wrote the article. Not saying he's right or wrong, but obviously this wasn't scientific. "It happens all the time" isn't a scientific theory.
 
I think the last line is the one that is most poignant, and if there was a message in all of this hysteria, this should be it.

Damn dude, why are you so hell bent on this shit? What a weird topic to flex your muscle on.

One more thing, and JSS2306 pointed it out. When I recently studied for the FBI phase 1 testing, we were give three measurements to cover: Biodata inventory, Logical reasoning, and situational judgement. During these tests, you could make absolutely NO assumptions and had to assume everything was a fact. It was difficult to do at first, since a lot of the language was written as an opinion piece. So when I see
"The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said."
, I immediately recognize the reason why I didn't pass phase 1 testing: I couldn't get past not taking words for opinions and assuming everything as fact.

While poignant, this is a harsh opinion placed nicely at the end of the article, rendering this supposition as baseless as a conspiracy theorist writing an article how aliens are shooting down the birds.

And for E.O. Wilson's information, that's not irony.
 
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Points of mass die offs.


Edit: Here's a picture of our jet stream
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You can see the east coast is the most concentrated area of die offs. The stream seems to carry an upward curve to Europe which just so happens to be the second most concentrated area of incidents. Maybe we hit some sort of gas well through oil exploration?

The gas would probably float to the atmosphere and then float back down in various different areas of Earth which is why we see random points of mass die offs.

Not nearly an expert on any of this but wouldn't this explain how Phosgene (or any deadly gas) would be spread leading to all of these deaths. I guess regardless of how much we look into this stuff the government will always make conspiracy people look crazy and people who believe in the conspiracy will always say the government is hiding stuff and we will never know the truth.
 
Is that picture of the jet stream current?
 
The top is all of the points of mass deaths of animals (think mainly either birds or fish) and the bottom is the jet stream across the United states.
 

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