Bird deaths

[bb07]

Very strange. Hopefully there won't be any more.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40921795/ns/us_news-environment/

 

[Shewie]

I saw this on the web this morning, pretty weird.

 

[JAG009]

Very strange !

 

[wingstoo]

There is a thought that it is caused by something called "Fracking"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing

http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking

Might also have caused the death of fish in the area as well.

Wings

 

[torc]

It's common enough apparently, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/07/mass-bird-fish-deaths-occur-regularly_n_805637.html.
If it occurs in the US on a slow news day you can be sure the man on the moon is going to know about it.
Happy trails...torc.

 

[Wayland]

Maybe Bear Grylls has been playing tennis again...

 

[sasquatch]

More in Italy now I see...

 

[wingstoo]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704055204576068252659717470.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Lots of realistic answers

 

[Lurch]

How dull. I prefer to think we're all doomed.

 

[Coverbuster]

There is a thought that it is caused by something called "Fracking"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing

http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking

Might also have caused the death of fish in the area as well.

Wings

Well that being the case we should have not a single winged mammal in the sky here in Wyoming . I would like to know how breaking rocks at 30,000 feet under ground kills birds 100 feet above ground .

 

[wingstoo]

Well that being the case we should have not a single winged mammal in the sky here in Wyoming . I would like to know how breaking rocks at 30,000 feet under ground kills birds 100 feet above ground .

Well I am told that they work on the theory that if you fracture into a pocket of methane gas then that is released into the atmosphere, possibly at high velocity and capacity, so anything that is easily damaged or could be suffocated due to small lung capacity i.e. birds, as they pass through the area.

Well that's my interpretation of the theory anyway.

Sorry it's a bit of a dull explanation, but as it says in the article,

The natural questions: Are these deaths somehow linked by a common cause, a sign of an impending apocalypse or the result of a common environmental trigger? Biologists say it's unlikely.

"Large mortality events in wildlife aren't that uncommon," says Paul Slota, spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., which has been tracking mass animal deaths since the 1970s. "In the last 10 years we have logged 188 cases just involving birds with mortality exceeding 1,000 animals per event."

And

There's much greater exchange of information nowadays" thanks to the Internet, says Mr. Slota. "The more such events get reported, the more people take interest" and see links that aren't necessarilythere.

In years gone by it might have taken years for information like this to be linked, now it is hours until someone hears and thinks its something apocolyptic

 

[torc]

Here's the follow up to the Arkansas story, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/27/dead-birds-and-fish-in-ar_n_814853.html.
This duck is pretty worried though, http://www.theonion.com/articles/pa...g-off-us-bird-po,18953/?utm_source=recentnews.
Happy trails...torc.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

"Though he was able to access government records through the Freedom of Information Act, the duck said further attempts to investigate were derailed when federal officials did not respond to his attempts to contact them. The duck also reportedly tried to speak with fish and game wardens, but was chased away every time."

I think he needs to keep a low profile or he could end up crispy and in a role......

 

[PhotoGirl]

Strange I dreamed about loads of dead birds last night, I had not seen this but I think it has a lot to do with the dead bird that appeared in the back yard yesterday.

 

[_scorpio_]

Well that being the case we should have not a single winged mammal in the sky here in Wyoming .

it isnt affecting bats
birds are birds, not mammals

 

[Shambling Shaman]

"Children given lifelong ban on talking about fracking
Two Pennsylvanian children will live their lives under a gag order imposed under a $750,000 settlement"



http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/05/children-ban-talking-about-fracking

gaging orders, don't tell the truth or els.

 

[Humpback]

gaging orders, don't tell the truth or els.

Gagging order, don't discuss or you won't get your $750000 surely.

Parents volunteered to have their kids gagged. A curious case of "money doesn't talk"


Alan

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Gagging order, don't discuss or you won't get your $750000 surely.

Parents volunteered to have their kids gagged. A curious case of "money doesn't talk"


Alan

Very true..

 

[santaman2000]

And once the kids turn 18 it'll be unenforceable.

 

[petrochemicals]

dolphins in the us-

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130808-dolphin-deaths-virginia-east-coast-nation-animals/


pedantic edit.
Also with regards of the fracking poisoning in the U.s. Ground water-
end of pedantic edit:

There's no chemicals in the water, also if methane is a hydrocarbon, like parraffin, and you desolve methane in water and drink it, you would expect the same sort of reaction that you would get if you drank parraffin, lung liver and kidney problems, (before you say no only the larger molecules enter your bloodstream, I don't believe you). You can bet that when you test the water most of the methane has had time to leave the water.