300 Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Alabama

[deminks]

An estimated 300 dead birds have been found on the side of the I-65 highway in Alabama, WAFF News reports. According to wildlife biologist Bill Gates, the birds are grackles, a common black bird, one of the same species reported in the past weeks to have been found dead in mass quantities in other nearby states like Arkansas, Louisiana and Kentucky.

Gates told WAFF that the feathers scattered across the location suggest trauma, and he believes a semi-truck or other vehicle may be responsible for their death. Samples are being sent to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin to run a series of tests to determine what caused the mass bird deaths, as disease or poisoning could also be to blame.

Over 100 birds were found dead on the side of a California highway this past weekend, and a collision with a big rig is also believed to be responsible for that incident. One witness allegedly saw the incident and said "it looked like they were committing suicide."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/13/300-dead-birds-alabama_n_808477.html

[lonestarnot]

1. Whisky Tango Bravo! More?

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. A truck hit 300 birds and killed them all?

Yet the headline said they "fell from the sky"?

"Wildlife biologist Mitchell Marks says it appears the birds were feeding alongside the road and flushed and then flew into a vehicle."
http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/01/around_300_blackbirds_found_de.html

Weird. You would think that kind of behavior, if true, would result in a lot of people seeing a lot of bird bodies along the freeway.

[Catherina]

3. They're not even trying anymore. +1 n/t

[XemaSab]

13. I've seen a few birds get hit like that

but 300?

That's like 3 per square foot. :P

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Maybe we have giant trucks in North Ala.

It IS worth noting the incident occurred near Huntsville, on the Tenn border area.
Huntsville being home to rocket, military, possibly some sources of chemical pollution, and this time of year,
cold.
But those birds should be used to the weather up there.

My mind keeps coming back to GMO grains.
Except that the coots, which they said were "possibly killed while walking on an overpass" are a shorebird/lake bird, and certainly do not take a stroll on bridge overpasses.

All the reports I have read indicate a large number of birds were found in a small area, appeared to have died from
"blunt trauma" ( as in falling out of the sky and hitting the ground?)

So what would make a small flock of birds suddenly drop like a rock?

[snooper2]

4. My new paintball gun is proving out

Next report you hear should be around Missouri

[BeFree]

7. You do know

That what you are suggesting is a federal crime?

[snooper2]

16. I'd call the FBI

[RagAss]

5. I'm all for it !

[glinda]

6. End of the worlders poisoning them I will guess.

[nc4bo]

8. Why can't I shake the feeling that all of these mass deaths are related? nt

[jberryhill]

9. If they were dead, what were they doing in the sky in the first place?

[TwilightGardener]

10. Not buying this. I've seen huge flocks of grackles, redwing blackbirds, etc.--

so it's plausible that many were struck. But there's no way one semi truck took 300 of them out at once. Unless he was going fast enough to cause a sonic boom.

[gratuitous]

11. Shock at finding themselves in Alabama?

Lyle: "Hey Herb, where are we?"

Herb: "I dunno. Florida, I think. No wait! It's . . . Alabama!"

300 Birds: "AAAAAAAAHHHHH" {Plop, plop, plop x 100}

[vercetti2021]

12. Wow

There dropping dead in republican states! They're committing suicide!

[Motown_Johnny]

14. when dead birds don't fall, let me know