AFP
Time for another bird die-off, this one in Sweden
Ornithologist Anders Wirdheim said the find was surprising.
“This is unusual,” he told tabloid Aftonbladet, which posted online a reader’s photo of dozens of black birds littering a snow-covered road.
“They are probably jackdaws. They spend the winter in large flocks. If they are exposed to disturbances, they can become so stressed that they fly themselves to death,” he said.
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Silent Spring, the horror of DDT and other pesticides.
Can’t be anything else.
Skandia Recluse on January 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Media news cycle at work, grist for the mill.
fossten on January 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM
And just where is Dick Cheney these days?
rbj on January 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM
Global warming did it/
Knucklehead on January 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM
The Air Force is training them to be kamakazis!
Tony737 on January 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM
The birds were Jooooosss and Allah (PBUH) is punishing them!
Tony737 on January 5, 2011 at 12:10 PM
This is definite proof of climate change.
Now give me money.
Rocks on January 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Man, they must have some awesome fireworks in Arkansas to kill birds in Sweden…
catmman on January 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM
So the FROZE to death? Maybe they should’ve flown south for the winter!
Damn you Global Warming! Speakin’ of, did you hear about the Russian ships TRAPPED IN THE ARCTIC ICE that was suppossed to be melting away?
Tony737 on January 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM
Oh come on everyone knows that Bigfoot’s girlfriend (Greta Von Hairy, no relation to Greta Von Sustern) is from Sweden.
Obviously he took the black helicopter to Sweden and wacked some birds.
Negligent discharges happen.
LincolntheHun on January 5, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Sweden?? Socialist Sweden??
But, but, . . . . how can we blame Bush and the Republicans?
MassVictim on January 5, 2011 at 12:15 PM
jus sayin’
ted c on January 5, 2011 at 12:18 PM
weep=sweep
broken “s” on keyboard.
ted c on January 5, 2011 at 12:19 PM
How many are going to start freaking out saying ITEOTWAWKI?
upinak on January 5, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Zionist Vulture Conspiracy…
MeatHeadinCA on January 5, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Good thing there are no narcissistic Mississippians in the headlines today.
MassVictim on January 5, 2011 at 12:20 PM
And you “repaired” it in less than a minute. Impressive.
RedWinged Blackbird on January 5, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Another thing that stresses birds: cold temperatures.
RBMN on January 5, 2011 at 12:25 PM
make that a .ticky . key on the keyboard. I literally have a replacement on order to arrive today from amazon.
ted c on January 5, 2011 at 12:26 PM
Birds believed the global warming thing and forgot to grow an extra layer of insulating feathers for winter….
albill on January 5, 2011 at 12:27 PM
Ha! Just now people are waking up to the alien conspiracy?
It’s been going on since Roswell.
.
Bow to your Alien Overlords sheeple!
Bow and be glad you are allowed to live!
.
or get that 50 cal, and join in me in the re$istance
LincolntheHun on January 5, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Maybe they should take a little Xanax to ease the stress a bit.
vcferlita on January 5, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Does anyone know where Tippy Hedren is?
Knucklehead on January 5, 2011 at 12:31 PM
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Hey Ted how did your keyboard get sticky…
Oh….Oh …Oh dude! You can aim that thing, ya know!
LincolntheHun on January 5, 2011 at 12:31 PM
heh! I see what you did there. Truthfully, the dog stepped on the keyboard and messed up the ss key. Now I have to hit it hard to get it to make a letter. I tried to fix it but you can get a new laptop keyboard for HP for $8. so, i’ll just change it out.
ted c on January 5, 2011 at 12:43 PM
This is officially no-news news. It’s only a matter of time before they start with the shark attacks and radon warnings.
JavelinaBomb on January 5, 2011 at 12:45 PM
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I’m only believing that because the backup dog (he who must whine) decided the forward arrow on my keyboard was incredibly tasty.
Dog is trying to commit suicide by trying to drive me to canineicide. Daily.
LincolntheHun on January 5, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Flying Chupacabra.
TexasDan on January 5, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Canineivore?
They say the black ones are the tastiest. In Indonesia. True story.
TexasDan on January 5, 2011 at 12:52 PM
Sadly, the dog is a red brown so he’s not “tasty” by Korean standards, and now you say Indonesians wouldn’t eat him either.
Bummer.
I’m still without my 50 cal, yet, and backup dog is the smoking hot redhead’s.
Whacking the evil monster, mounting his head on a stick in the front yard and inviting the neighbors over for a doggie BBQ will not win me any favors.
So, I endure.
For now.
LincolntheHun on January 5, 2011 at 1:13 PM
They say the black ones are the tastiest. – TexasDan
RAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!
Tony737 on January 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM
I saw on another blog that the birds were ones that had been sickened by the cold weather and were sitting in the road eating salt. Drivers were able to avoid them until a big truck came along and hit them.
As we’ve all been instructed by our betters recently, cold weather is caused by global warming, so these birds are tragic victims of your carbon emissions.
juliesa on January 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM
I just wonder what causes hot weather…./
ted c on January 5, 2011 at 1:38 PM
The reports keep saying “physical trauma”, but with (apparently) no grossly identifiable anatomical symptoms.
Mass bird kills were also a common occcurance during the “Little Ice Age”, from 1650-1850. Back then, chroniclers simply assumed the birds had frozen to death in flight. But we’re a lot smarter now; recent developments in Politically Correct Scientology have given modern journalists tremendous advances — in spouting gibberish.
logis on January 5, 2011 at 1:52 PM
they think we’re stupid. We apparently aren’t smart enough to figure out that physical trauma should result in grossly identifiable anatomical signs…such as fractures, dislocation, lacerations…aside from death. If a human died, then fell down the stairs, we could figure that out. If a bird dies, then falls out of the sky, we can figure that out too. Buuuut, we have to ask the questions first.
ted c on January 5, 2011 at 2:20 PM
You’re not thinking like a Liberal Scientologist at all.
Capitalism is evil; ergo, Gia is angry. It is not the place of mere mortals to make before-the-fact predictions about such silly things as causes and effects….
All we can do is wait and see what happens. And then our shamans will interpret those signs to tell us what form Her retribution is currently taking.
logis on January 5, 2011 at 5:05 PM