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It's over... 1000
2011-01-01, 11:41 PM #1
Birds that is...

Birds... Birds everywhere.

Seriously, what the hell man?

End of the world??
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2011-01-02, 12:12 AM #2
My grandfather opened a can of varnish about 10 feet from our bird cage to refinish his front door. The bird dropped dead in minutes from the fumes, which weren't that strong as far as us humans were concerned. I can easily imagine some kind of cloud accidentally released from a factory or something causing this.
2011-01-02, 4:14 AM #3
I don't know much about New World birds but if, like many over-wintering birds, these blackbirds turn to feeding on seeds and grain through winter, then the flock feeding on a contaminated food pile would probably do the trick. There have been several recorded instances of pesticide poisoning causing mass die-offs in birds.
2011-01-02, 5:57 AM #4
None of those explain the physical trauma.
2011-01-02, 6:17 AM #5
Originally posted by Fett 316:
End of the world??


No that's in 364 days :hist101:
2011-01-02, 7:23 AM #6
Originally posted by JM:
None of those explain the physical trauma.


how about the falling out of the sky part?
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2011-01-02, 7:32 AM #7
I would hate to be a part of that clean up crew. Especially since they don't really know for sure, lol.
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2011-01-02, 10:54 AM #8
Originally posted by x25064:
No that's in 364 days :hist101:


Actually we've got something like 719 days before that. But who's counting anyway?
My blawgh.
2011-01-02, 11:04 AM #9
Originally posted by Phantom-Seraph:
Actually we've got something like 719 days before that. But who's counting anyway?


Actually, it's more like 6 minutes.
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Matt Bonner, The Lebron Killer
2011-01-02, 2:33 PM #10
Originally posted by Phantom-Seraph:
Actually we've got something like 719 days before that. But who's counting anyway?


2012, how do you figure?
2011-01-02, 3:08 PM #11
Originally posted by x25064:
2012, how do you figure?


Silly boy, all this end of the world hub bub centers around not the year 2012, but the day that in our calendar happens to be December 21st, 2012. Or the 23rd, depends on who you ask.
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2011-01-02, 3:29 PM #12
:(
nope.
2011-01-02, 3:31 PM #13
effect from fireworks?
2011-01-02, 3:40 PM #14
Originally posted by Spook:
Silly boy, all this end of the world hub bub centers around not the year 2012, but the day that in our calendar happens to be December 21st, 2012. Or the 23rd, depends on who you ask.


this.
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2011-01-02, 4:10 PM #15
Maybe all dem birds done crashing into one'a dem invisible flying saucers like dat one moviee wit Mel Gibson?
My blawgh.
2011-01-02, 6:36 PM #16
Hail.

It hailed here at my house the day this happened (which is nowhere near Beebe, where the gravity-challenged birds were) because a storm system came through. The hail was totally unexpected.

It was sprinkling and about 67°F, and my 4-yr-old son was out back playing in the "dirt box" (think sandbox). Then all of a sudden it sounded like it was pouring rain, and I looked out the window and it was hailing. I ran to the back door, but he had followed me back in. The hail was brief and was only pea-sized.

Anyway, that line of storms crossed the whole state, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if those stupid birds got nailed. Hate 'em anyway. Nothing like having a few hundred blackbirds land in your backyard and crap all over everything.
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2011-01-02, 6:38 PM #17
I'm starting to think maybe you killed the birds.
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2011-01-02, 6:40 PM #18
Originally posted by Spook:
Silly boy, all this end of the world hub bub centers around not the year 2012, but the day that in our calendar happens to be December 21st, 2012. Or the 23rd, depends on who you ask.


Oh. Guess I never paid enough attention to that garbage to know
2011-01-02, 8:19 PM #19
Maybe it's just me... I've seen large flocks of birds, but... a thousand? It seems extraordinary.
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2011-01-02, 8:35 PM #20
I know what caused this. An emission, from the heart of the Zone. They cook all the birds alive in mid-flight and send them tumbling down to the ground.

-Or maybe it was hail.
2011-01-02, 8:40 PM #21
This sort of thing reminds me of frog and fish rains.
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2011-01-03, 2:43 AM #22
Originally posted by Jarl:
I know what caused this. An emission, from the heart of the Zone. They cook all the birds alive in mid-flight and send them tumbling down to the ground.

-Or maybe it was hail.



Please tell me you were not just mentioning the now dead gaming Zone rooms. Because that might be more than I can handle at this particular moment in time.
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2011-01-03, 4:47 AM #23
No, it was a Stalker reference, although at times the MSN Gaming Zone seemed likewise full of strange mutants and ne'erdowells.

-Seems like lightning would leave very obvious physical marks on birds, it must have been hail.
2011-01-03, 10:41 AM #24
:(
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2011-01-03, 12:31 PM #25
Originally posted by ORJ_JoS:
Maybe it's just me... I've seen large flocks of birds, but... a thousand? It seems extraordinary.

Not particularly extraordinary. I know of a local rook/jackdaw roost that regularly reaches 2000+ birds in winter. This winter I watched a fairly average mixed roost of knot and oysterctacher that was in the region of 5000 and 2000 birds respectively. Murmurations of starlings regularly reach tens of thousands in the UK and no doubt also in the Netherlands. In Rome they number in the millions. Birds concentrated into their hundreds and thousands is one of the main draws of winter birdwatching.
2011-01-03, 12:32 PM #26
It's over 4000!

And now 100,000 dead fish...

Somethings wrong in Arkansas...
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2011-01-03, 1:01 PM #27
Originally posted by Fett 316:
Somethings wrong in Arkansas...

It's either the spelling or the pronounciation.
nope.
2011-01-03, 2:48 PM #28
It's both. Believe it or not, last year or the year before, the state senate was debating changing the spelling of the state...
"Harriet, sweet Harriet - hard-hearted harbinger of haggis."
2011-01-03, 5:57 PM #29
I have family who live in Arkansas, Kansas. It's pronounced how it's spelled: Ar-Kansas.
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2011-01-03, 7:45 PM #30
Originally posted by Fett 316:
It's over 4000!

And now 100,000 dead fish...

Somethings wrong in Arkansas...


The Oklahomans are pissing in the Arkansas River again.

[On a side note, I like how in the fishy article they are saying the two events are coincidental...]
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2011-01-03, 8:21 PM #31
Arkansas = Kansas^-1 :v:
2011-01-04, 9:04 AM #32
Apparently around 500 of thesame species of bird dropped dead in Louisiana
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2011-01-04, 10:08 AM #33
Originally posted by x25064:
Oh. Guess I never paid enough attention to that garbage to know


It's the date the Mayan calendar ends. Most people with half a brain can figure out that the world isn't going to end, it's just an end to one of their cycles. But regardless the Mayans had some cool stuff and it's definitely not garbage.
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2011-01-05, 12:14 AM #34
Arkansas is dying.

Bout time. **** hole.
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2011-01-05, 6:35 AM #35
Yeah we taught those razorbacks a lesson last night
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2011-01-05, 3:07 PM #36
Originally posted by Couchman:
effect from fireworks?


That's what some top ranking veterinarian proposed on the radio the other night.
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