Its raining birds.................
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Re: Its raining birds.................
Secret Guberment testing ? Alien spaceships with death-rays ?
Sum'em wierd goings on down in Beebe, I tell ya.
( So far, I've heard stress from fireworks killed them, lighting strike killed them, and high-altitude hail killed them ? I would believe a Ranger Cams taco fart got 'em over all those stories ! )
(AP) BEEBE, Ark. (AP) - Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday that it began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. the previous night. The birds fell over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.
Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the birds showed physical trauma, and she speculated that "the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."
The commission said that New Year's Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.
Robby King, a wildlife officer for the agency, collected about 65 dead birds, which will be sent for testing to the state Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Madison, Wis.
Sum'em wierd goings on down in Beebe, I tell ya.
( So far, I've heard stress from fireworks killed them, lighting strike killed them, and high-altitude hail killed them ? I would believe a Ranger Cams taco fart got 'em over all those stories ! )
(AP) BEEBE, Ark. (AP) - Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday that it began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. the previous night. The birds fell over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.
Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the birds showed physical trauma, and she speculated that "the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."
The commission said that New Year's Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.
Robby King, a wildlife officer for the agency, collected about 65 dead birds, which will be sent for testing to the state Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Madison, Wis.
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Re: Its raining birds.................
It's Arkansas. That's enough to kill anything.
Maybe the Hildebeast was in town visiting family
Maybe the Hildebeast was in town visiting family
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Repeal the 16th, enforce the 10th.
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Re: Its raining birds.................
All the fish and birds drank the punch.
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Re: Its raining birds.................
Damn, I knew I should have put a cover on it.IEDmagnet wrote:All the fish and birds drank the punch.
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Re: Its raining birds.................
I'm no environmental expert, but just taking a wild stab, I would say that hundreds of dead birds falling from the sky is a bad sign.
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Re: Its raining birds.................
Hell it ain't so bad.RangerX wrote:It's Arkansas. That's enough to kill anything.
Maybe the Hildebeast was in town visiting family
About 6 winters ago I had about 50 starlings die in my back yard all of a sudden.
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Re: Its raining birds.................
Meth Lab?Buzz wrote:Hell it ain't so bad.RangerX wrote:It's Arkansas. That's enough to kill anything.
Maybe the Hildebeast was in town visiting family
About 6 winters ago I had about 50 starlings die in my back yard all of a sudden.
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Re: Its raining birds.................
EarthPig wrote:I'm no environmental expert, but just taking a wild stab, I would say that hundreds of dead birds falling from the sky is a bad sign.
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Hundreds ?
Last I heard it was 2,000 !!!! And some reports are saying it all happened in under 30 minutes !!
I'm no expert either, but I agree with Earthpig.....prolly NOT a good sign at all ! and
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Re: Its raining birds.................
Son's 1100 without it's choke.EarthPig wrote:Meth Lab?Buzz wrote:Hell it ain't so bad.RangerX wrote:It's Arkansas. That's enough to kill anything.
Maybe the Hildebeast was in town visiting family
About 6 winters ago I had about 50 starlings die in my back yard all of a sudden.
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Re: Its raining birds.................
X3RANGER513 wrote:EarthPig wrote:I'm no environmental expert, but just taking a wild stab, I would say that hundreds of dead birds falling from the sky is a bad sign.
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Hundreds ?
Last I heard it was 2,000 !!!! And some reports are saying it all happened in under 30 minutes !!
I'm no expert either, but I agree with Earthpig.....prolly NOT a good sign at all ! and
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Re: Its raining birds.................
I hear that hundreds of dead cats are turning up on I-10 between Katy and Columbus , Texas.
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Re: Its raining birds.................
Flesh Thorn wrote:I hear that hundreds of dead cats are turning up on I-10 between Katy and Columbus , Texas.
....and that they all have double 00 buckshot embedded in thier little kitty fur.
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