So, if you’ve been watching or reading the news, you may have heard about the birds just dropping out of the sky, thousands of red winged black birds in Arkansas on New Year’s Eve, then about 500 in Louisiana, both red wing black birds and starlings. Officially they don’t know the cause yet, though they are suspecting fireworks. . . .hold it right there!
First off, while birds do migrate around this time of year and tend to cause large roosts, and blackbirds have poor eye sight, allow me to inject a little common fucking sense here. Birds aren’t stupid, humans can think they are dumb animals all they want, but they aren’t dumb enough to bang into each other to the point of hemorrhaging due to New Year’s fireworks, birds are very agile and intelligent creatures, I know, I share my home with two parrots. Also, Blackbirds are very intelligent for a wild bird species, just a little under the mental ability of the ravens and crows which are smart little feather balls, they travel in huge flocks and they know how to travel like this, they know how to avoid their flock members mid flight, even if in the dark by sound and feeling when their wings brush each other, these birds would not collide like that, yes, they may bounce off each other but realize, birds can survive impact with birds of their own size in most instances, if the causes of death were mid air collisions the number would not be in the thousands.
Now, it was also mentioned that blood clots were found in the dead birds without injury to their internal organs, that sounds like disease or them getting hold of contaminated water or food and it causing that. I’m hoping it’s not disease but, sadly, for this many to die that seems be the most likely cause. It is also worth noting a good many fish were found dead around the same area in Arkansas, so the contaminated water possibility is not ruled out at all. Right now those seem to be the two most likely situations. Though it’s worrying because if it is disease, and I sure as hell hope it’s not, then my baby birds could be at risk, though it is still odd for them to all drop like that in such a short span of time unless we‘re talking about a fast spreading and fast acting illness, and that‘s just a terrifying thought.
Some dead birds have also been found in Texas, though the numbers are not as great. What bugs me is that the first thing they thought was fireworks, if it was fireworks then this would happen yearly, because migration is always at the same time, so it’d happen every New Years, but it doesn’t, it hasn’t happened during New Years at all that I’ve seen documented, I ran a few searches to make sure and came up with nothing but this year’s occurrence. Also, if it was fireworks then the bird in Louisiana wouldn’t have been found dead three days later, on a highway, I think people would have noticed them if they were sitting there for three days! The ones found in Louisiana were long enough pass the timeframe of massive fireworks being set off to rule that ‘cause’ out, yes, injuries can prolong the time it takes for a bird to die but they would not drop out the sky all at once if that was the case.
Other theories have mentioned the possibility of odd weather patterns, birds are wild creatures, while sensitive to the weather, it doesn’t match up. The weather conditions in Louisiana when the birds died were not the same as when they died in Arkansas, and the weather wouldn’t have cause them to all drop dead at once, not unless there was a major upset in the earth’s magnetic field which is what these birds use to navigate, weather alone, while it can cause an upset, it cannot upset the magnetic field that much.
Some theories get really wild, needless to say the doomsayers are calling it a sign of the end of the world, while, yes, it is an odd as hell occurrence it doesn’t exactly scream Armageddon to me, if science cannot find a reason then maybe I’ll consider some of the more out there possibilities. Then there’s people saying they collided with an invisible UFO, hey, I do believe in aliens, after all this universe is too big for us to be alone, but cmon, if a big ass invisible UFO was floating up there it would have caused more disturbance than just birds hitting it on New Years, when fireworks are kinda being shot up into the air.
Anyways, it seems the three most probable things are disease, contaminated food/water, or a shift in the Earth’s magnetic field, though the last possibility would be hard for them to think up if they’re so fast to assume fireworks. They’re doing some tests, I’m hoping they find out what’s causing the blood clots in them, and damn I hope it’s not a disease, I’m already worried as hell about my youngest bird’s health due to her allergies.
Additional research: I'm actually beginning to suspect magnetic disturbance though that doesn't explain the blood clots found in the birds. Here in the south strong storms have been a good bit more frequent here, I mean, we normally get pounded by thunderstorms but this has been getting ridiculous. The tornado outbreaks in Illinois, Oklahoma, Missouri, Mississippi and Arkansas on New Year's Eve is also noteworthy. As is seismic activity in this region, most are unaware of it but the South does get earthquakes, the people here just normally don't feel them due to how moist the ground here is, it kinda acts like a shock absorber. However, seismic activity is normally one of the side effects of a fluctuating magnetic field, on Aug. 2nd, 2010 a 3.0 earthquake was measured near Hatchersville and Gilead, that's strong for this region, a 1.9 earthquake was measured in Arkansas on Jan, 4th, 2011 near Conway, which is less than 40 miles from Bebee, where the birds fell dead on New Year's Eve, Oklahoma also had a 2.9 earthquake on Jan. 4th, 2011 right near Oklahoma City, within 2 hours of the quake in Arkansas, that's kinda odd. There was also a 2.3 quake in Missouri on Dec. 25th, 2010, right near Cairo. This is making me highly suspect the earth's magnetic field had something to do with the death of these birds.
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