Comments on: Dead Birds https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/ Thu, 12 May 2011 07:17:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: vijayakumar https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497467 Thu, 12 May 2011 07:17:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497467 iam not supposed to share this but there is a connection

]]> By: brian https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497466 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:49:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497466 I work in Canada for the NRC and I am closely linked with the SKA project (square kilometer array).

I am not supposed to share this, but there is a connection with the dead birds and the recent sightings of lights over major centers.

about 6 months ago we began to detect seve

]]> By: Duncan Falconer https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497465 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:24:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497465 Hi Greg,
I’ve just done a Google search here and come up with link worth looking at: http://www.ecoworld.com/ideas/literature/massive-octopus-kill-mystery.html

It seems that the octopuses have been washing up since the 2nd January. There has also been no reports of a red tide in the articles.

Another website, http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2011/01/thousands-of-octopus-dead-on-portugal.html is also worth a read.

One thing though, is that there is no indication yet that these unusual events are been taken seriously in this neck of the woods (Europe any way from what has been discussed in the news). As a layman, I would prefer to er on the side of caution and pass my concerns to those folks that work in the scientific field.

Thanks

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497464 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:22:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497464 I don’t know about that region specifically. Is there a red tide there? Also check to confirm that these are octopus and not squid. It makes a difference! Mass deaths of things in the ocean are pretty common.

]]> By: Duncan Falconer https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497463 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:49:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497463 Hi Greg,
I have just seen another report on the BBC news website commenting on “Thousands of dead octopuses have washed up on a beach in northern Portugal”. The web link is http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8438477.stm There is video showing the octopuses, all of different sizes but looking like the same species… Would you know of any authorities that deal on the subject of theorizing and researching what is going on?
Thanks

]]> By: Duncan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497462 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:27:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497462 Hi I just posted my comment to http://mysteriousmiscellany.blogspot.com/2011/01/strange-bird-fish-and-animal-deaths.html so please forgive me for linking the two discusstions together.

I came across your blog, because I have been following this story as a matter of personal interest, ever since I heard about the mysterious bird deaths in Sweden. There has been a a few fictional story lines in the media portraying events like this and they do prompt food for thought. Only recently this week, there were more bird deaths in Romania. What I find strange is the explanations given for why a flock of birds or so many fish of one type have died so mysteriously. My own opinion is that these animals all have something in common and something in the environment changed to cause them to all perish in these groups, all at once. One thing I think that should be looked into is the genetic traits of each of these groups of animals. They may have been genetically susceptible to something that made them all die at once. I’m putting my Microbiology cap on here… Perhaps a level of radiation or magnetism (some force capable of influencing us on a molecular scale) peaked at a particular level that just happened to be right, for affecting certain genes, resulting in the “switching off” of specific families/relations of these animals- like a very sudden acceleration of the biochemical aging process all life has to undergo. Hence only a few of these fish or birds have been affected by an environmental factor which is is most likely global. One would need to make further observations to learn more…

]]> By: sara s https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497461 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:01:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497461 i just heard today on the news, hundreds thousands of birds fell to their deaths in Romania, the explanation, there was a winery nearby and they had all drunk the wine and fell to their deaths, is anybody buying this bullshit, cause apparently the people who deliver the news are, what happened to investigavtie journalism, also did you notice how quickly the governments are coming up with explanation, and ridiculous ones at that, all i can day is THANK GOD FOR WIKILEAKS, everybody else is afraid to question the governments even “free speech media”:(

]]> By: vivian potts https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497460 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:40:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497460 now our news here is stating the birds fell from sky over being too fat-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa–I live in tornado alley–have had tornados only about a block frome me several times and we didn’t have any birds to pick up with all the hail and lightning. Birds usually sense before we do a change in weather. Fireworks –live nearby 3 cities with major firework displays as well as a theme park doing theirs–never had any dead birds. I think they are feeding me Cornflakes on this one on the news. Even our TV weather man got a chuckle out of the fireworks & couldnt buy it either.

]]> By: sra https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497459 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:10:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497459 Has there been an increase in solar flare activity lately?

]]> By: Jennifer https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497458 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:29:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/04/dead-birds/#comment-497458 I was reading an article this morning that stated the bird deaths in Arkansas were caused by impact trauma due to becoming disoriented and running into buildings and such. I can understand how this can be a possibility, since the autopsy does show bruising of their tissues and organs, but there were about 3000 birds found in Arkansas alone. I guess the information is just not matching up to me. George had commented on tornadic activity. Why are they not associating bird deaths with weather patterns? Arkansas did just have some pretty bad tornadoes go through the state.

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