Thankfully, our recent story on 3,000-5,000 blackbirds falling from the sky and dying in Arkansas on New Year’s Eve has gotten quite a few comments and brought up some additional potential explanations. In addition to these, I’ve gone searching for more potential answers and have found a few worth sharing.
But before getting into these, an important thing to note is that about 500 birds suddenly died in Louisiana yesterday as well. Supposedly, they flew into a power line… but why they would have done so is still a mystery. And 500 birds flying into a power line seems a little unlikely to me, but I have read that there are a ton of birds in this area and it is, perhaps, really the cause of death.
Possible Explanations for Mass Bird Deaths
Starting from what I think are the most plausible explanations (but remember, I’m really no expert on this), here we go:
- Geologic shifts and a resulting electrostatic discharge:
- “Birds are very sensitive to electrostatic charges. A simple thunder cloud will irritate a bird severely. This is why birds fly low to the ground just before a storm, to avoid the very uncomfortable charges in the air
- In Arkansas there is one of the Worlds Largest Quartz deposits underground. Quartz is piezoelectric which means a charge developes over the surface of the quartz when pressure is applied to the crystal. The charge is millions of volts but it happens so fast its nearly harmless to people on a small scale. This is how some lighters work. A hammer hits a quartz device releasing a spark.
- Anyways, the recent earthquake has placed new pressures on the quartz deposits in Arkansas. This results in a massive discharge of billions of volts of electricity. Think how a small piece of quartz the size of a pea can light a lighter. Now think about millions of Tons of quartz discharging under the extreme pressures the Earth can push.
- At some point, the charges below created a brief surface charge, positive charge, during a discharge event. The electrostatic charge is immense and knocks the birds out cold in flight. The birds are still alive though, just knocked unconscious. The birds that were flying high were the ones killed upon impact. Blunt force trauma. The birds that were in the trees survived. Some birds like to fly high, others fly low. This explains why it was species specific as the birds that flew high were the ones to die.” (Note: the writer also predicts this is the sign of a massive New Madrid Fault earthquake coming soon.)
- Leaking gas / result of gas exploration. The following are two comments from my first article on this topic that caught my attention. These (or some portion of these) seem very plausible:
- “There was a film featuring birds falling from the sky and fish floating on the water. It’s something to do with the leaking of a certain gas. There may have been a shift change in either land mass or the core of the earth. This will release deadly gasses….”
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- “There is a new gas pipeline stretching across that part of the state from Beebe to NW Arkansas. There was a drum fish die off in NW arkansas near the line.
- I have heard there has been a lot of exploratory mining for natural gas all along that area. There have been numerous small earthquakes in nearby Guy Arkansas.
- Loud noises were heard prior to the dead bird fall
- The birds show evidence of physical trauma (they smacked into something)
- My guess: A pocket of methane gas blew from the gas mining area. The birds passed out. Trauma was induced when they smacked into the ground or a building.
- The drum fish kill could also be a gas related thing
- Naughty troublemakers or bird-haters shooting fireworks into bird roosts. Regarding the mass bird death in Louisiana, Dan Cristol, a biology professor and co-founder of the Institute for Integrative Bird Behavior Studies at the College of William & Mary, notes: “They don’t hit a power line for no reason.” He is skeptical of the fireworks theory, though, unless “somebody blew something into the roost, literally blowing the birds into the sky.” Well, knowing humans, that seems entirely likely, especially since I read in one of the many articles I recently browsed that many in this region are not fans of the birds since there are so many of them out there currently.
- Another interesting possibility from the link above is that one doomed bird (perhaps hit by some fireworks) plunged to the ground and others followed it. Maybe not the most likely idea, but given that these birds apparently have quite bad eyesight, especially at night, it’s a possibility. And, similarly, such an occurrence could happen in different situations or slightly different ways, like in the Louisiana case in which the hundreds of birds might have just flown into a power line.
- Government Testing. With a good review of chemical and biological warfare testing by the U.S. government in a variety of circumstances, Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones hypothesize that these bird and fish deaths could be the result of some sort of government testing. I don’t think this is likely given the timing (Arkansas bird death on New Year’s Eve and Louisiana bird death a few days later), but couldn’t rule it out.
- Bird Flu or Other Disease. After months of examination, it was found that several thousand birds (grackles) suddenly died in northern Louisiana due to “an E. coli infection of the air sacs in their skulls.” Recent discovery of numerous dead migratory birds in Japan is bringing up concern of H5NI avian influenza. Could the deaths in Louisiana and Arkansas be related to some infection or flu? (This seems unlikely given the speed at which so many birds died… but it is another possibility.)
Other than explaining the mass bird deaths, fish are very sensitive to the Earth’s magnetic field and this could perhaps explain the massive fish die-off not too far away from Beebe, Arkansas.
More ideas?
Or more evidence to support one of the ideas above?
Please share.
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4. Sudden Fish Kills, Bird Die-offs, and Other “Fortean” Events
Photo Credit: Camera Slayer
What explains fish, bird and weather is only a crustal shift. A crustal shift would also perceptually mimic a magnetic shift (Tampa Airport was the only leak there must be many others). It logically answers all 4 mysteries. We need to answer all and not accept an explanation of one and not the other. Although horrifying, we need to use common sense.
Has anyone connected the bird and fish deaths to what’s happening with the rapid movement of magnetic north away from Canada towards Siberia AND what is happening with the sun and the huge solar explosion in August as reported by NASA. Tampa airport’s runways are affected by the magnetic pole shift. Both birds and fish depend on magnetic energy for directional guidance. And don’t forget that these bird and fish deaths are happening on a global scale not just in USA. Take a look at these links and decide for yourself.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2011/jan/05/060831/shift-of-earths-magnetic-north-pole-impacts-tampa-/
and this one about the sun explosionhttp://www.suite101.com/content/vast-solar-eruption-shocks-nasa-and-raises-doubts-on-sun-theory-a327330
thanks, Liz. yeah, i was thinking of doing a follow-up post on just this topic. thanks for the links. i think this is a very good possibility
With all the earthquakes over the last 100yrs is there not any documentation of massive kill offs of birds,fish etc. There has to be a logical explanation for this. I’m sorry but I can’t honestly believe that that many birds dropped dead from a virus,bacteria or
from an infection. If the red winged bb had some type of virus or
bacterial then I would think other birds in the area would have contacted it as well.
I think this could be due to a magentic pole disruption. Birds use the magnetic poles when migrating. Possibly a sign of a pole magnetic pole shift predicted coming in 2012?
I’ve come personally to a similar hypothesis as your option 1. Around 500 earthquakes have occurred in Arkansas since September. Although such phenomena normally occurs in the New Madrid fault region, this very large number is largely above normal figures. In addition I would like to highlight the fact that the epicenter seems a bit distant from the fault in itself. You should know that Diamonds State Park for instance is an ancient volcano. You should google the words Arkansas Caldera and very likely you will find more clues to what could happen soon. Maybe…
Just did a quick search of my own and found this site. I had not heard about the New Madrid Fault prior to this and it fits nicely into the idea of geologic shift. http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=328
I had a premonition of the massive bridge collapse that occurred a few yrs. back, and I recently had a feeling a very large earthquake may be coming-that was right before these massive bird and fish die-offs/like a week ago-I don’t call myself a psychic, I think we all are a little-who knows we’ll see..
Actually I believe disease from viruses or bacteria could cause mass death at once and I will tell you why. The course of an infection, like sepsis is distinct and easily mapped out, many infections have similar timing, case in point Spanish flu and tuberculosis. Considering the geological location and the birds and fish dying in a short amount of time en mass, I would say it is either toxin or disease. Birds notoriously carry crazy strains of the flu and it is that time of year when the second wave hits. It could also be an unfortunate combination of changing electromagnetics, decreased viability from illness, and/or deadly gasses in the air/water. If it spreads then I would question disease (much like what is happening to honey bees), if it does not, then I would question what they are releasing while raping the Earth.
I think those possibilities your mentioned could be true but for sure 5,000 birds don’t die of “natural causes” at the same time.