They say it’s hail or thunder, but then the birds would have been visually damaged. Why would they lie about that O_o? Maybe some of the fireworks this year had poisonous gass. Birds are more sensitive to them! And fish die quickly when their water is poisoned.
Didn’t this happen in two places? USA and Sweden?
Oh, and aren’t birds sleeping at night? Did they fall from trees?
Some people think they were disorientated because of sonic waves and crashed.
I also heard that the noises confused them and they mostly died because of stress in mid-air (BANG here, turn around, BANG again, has to fly back, yet another BANG… I can imagine that).
There’s another possibility. Global warming. Maybe birds in those places (south america) are sensitive to change of temperature.
One more. Diseases. This happened in 1999. 6 months after it happened doctors discovered that they were all infected with diseases that causes blindness.
I believe there are a great number of possibilities and they are all possible.
What I find funny is that I just watched an episode of Flash Forward. In the episode thousands of black birds fell from the sky because what they blieve to be a loss of conciousness.
So far no autopsies show any signs of poisoning, so it’s probably not anything environmental. They did all show signs of being stressed, which is often fatal to birds. Lightening, fireworks and the like are possible causes.
As for the fish, it is something that has happened before. No one in the ecological community is especially worried about it, but it is an eerie coincidence.
Just read another article. One scientist pointed out that this does happen from time to time. It is weird that it happened twice with so little time in between, but it mainly sounds worse because so much attention is being paid to it right now.
This is very bizarre and piquing my interest. It’s a very hot topic in the news, too. I’m interested in reading the explanations that they come up with.
I actually hadn’t heard of this until today when a friend mentioned something on it. It’s extremely odd, but the fireworks/lightning theory sounds very sound to me. Neither birds nor fish can stand stress well at all.
It makes sense until you realize that fireworks are traditionally set off every July 4th and New Years Eve. Why only now does it affect the birds, especially of that magnitude with only one species?
I’m not sure its useful to begin getting hyped up over if something is happening, however it is interesting. I don’t have a huge amount of time to go delving into the details about the species, but it would not surprise me if the particular species affected relied on / used the earth’s magnetism. The fact it is shifting could have had an adverse affect on them.
As has been pointed out, it seems unlikely that fireworks are to blame directly, perhaps combined with another factor they may have had a role, but there was a massive amount of fireworks, much more than normal set off in 2000, yet nothing like this happened.
I think we should bring back the 2012 topic now that its so close, and with signs such as Airports adjusting there instruments, because North is shifting, and now animals are dying. Its becoming a real thing it seems.
Personally at this moment I’m putting my money on disease. As far as I know birds and fish can share deseases, be subject to similar virusses and carry them. This could also explain why only certain species are dying; some species are probably more vunereable to the… sickness?.. then others…
Got no evidence, have no idea if there’s evidence against but for me this sounds the likeliest…