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[Mauser 98K]

ENVIRONETDAILY
'Catastrophic': Now thousands of birds fall from sky
Wildlife officers baffled, autopsies shed no light on mystery

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Posted: January 9, 2007
9:07 p.m. Eastern



© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com


Thousands of birds inexplicably dropped like rocks from the sky over Australia.


Thousands of wattle birds have mysteriously dropped dead in Australia


The mysterious catastrophe has taken place over a period of three weeks in Esperance, about 450 miles southeast of Perth. The area was declared a disaster zone by government officials.

So far, authorities are clueless as to the cause. Autopsies on the birds have shed no light.

The main casualties, according to Australian news sources, are wattle birds, yellow-throated miners, new holland honeyeaters and singing honeyeaters. Some dead crows, hawks and pigeons have also been found.

Some birds were seen convulsing when they died.

Wildlife officers are baffled by what they characterize as a "catastrophic" event. It does not appear to be weather-related.



District nature conservation coordinator Mike Fitzgerald said: "It's very substantial. We estimate several thousand birds are dead, although we don't have a clear number because of the large areas of bushland."

Birds Australia, the nation's main bird conservation group, said it had not heard of a similar occurrence. "Not on that scale, and all at the same time, and also the fact that it's several different species," chief executive Graeme Hamilton said. "You'd have to call that a most unusual event and one that we'd all have to be concerned about."

Just yesterday, some 60 birds fell out of the sky in Austin, Texas, without explanation.

The incident prompted street closings for several hours.

Officials said they had tested the air for dangerous substances but found nothing, and they declared the area safe.

The dead birds – grackles, sparrows and pigeons – were being checked for avian flu, but officials said they saw no symptoms of the illness and believed it more likely they had been poisoned, possibly deliberately, or affected by near-freezing weather.


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[Hellfighter]

it all so happen in Tex's as will. crows/black birds....ect

birds are dropping all over the world i think.

[DevilDog#1]

It's raining birds!!! Maybe they flew South and then weather here changed like summer and they flew back North and now it's getting cold again so they tried flying back South and since there was no food they all died???

[Hellfighter]

could be the north & south poles are about to change places too.

we are over 600 millions years over due for it to switch places.

[Mauser 98K]

polar shift, hmm, and there was a great earthquake unlike since men were upon the earth, the sun became as sackcloth and the moon as blood and every mountain and wall fell to the ground.