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500 More Birds Fall From the Sky in Louisiana

Celebratory fireworks. That’s what officials in Arkansas say likely sent thousands of discombobulated blackbirds into such a tizzy that they crashed into homes, cars and each other before plummeting to their deaths in central Arkansas. While plausible, new reports of birds falling from the sky in Louisiana raise questions about whether something larger is at work.

While reporting on the thousands of birds dropping out of the sky in Arkansas, the New York Times offers information on a seemingly unrelated incident near Baton Rouge, LA:

Meanwhile roughly 500 dead birds were found on Monday outside New Roads, La. Those birds were much more varied, with starlings and grackle in addition to blackbirds, and a few samples picked up by James LaCour, a wildlife veterinarian with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, did not show any signs of trauma, he said.

500 More Birds Fall From the Sky in Louisiana

500 Birds fell from the sky in Louisiana. (Photo: Liz Condo/The Advocate)

“Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists drove over and around them,” the local paper The Advocate reports. And although many will be concerned about the die-off, State Wildlife Veterinarian Jim LaCour told the paper he wasn’t alarmed.

“Underlying disease, starvation and cold fronts where birds can’t get their body heat up” have caused similar occurrences “in various species over the years,” he said.

U.S. Geological Survey spokesman Paul Slota shared LaCour’s anti-alarmist attitude. According to Slota, USGS records shows there have been 16 events in the past 30 years involving blackbirds where at least 1,000 of the birds have died seemingly all at once.

“These large events do take place,” he told the Advocate. “It’s not terribly unusual.”

Officials have not determined the cause of death. Samples have been sent away for lab testing.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comments (173)

  • Rob
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:35am

    BLACK Birds? RAAAAAAAAACIST!

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    • vennoye
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Well…….the drum fish were white.

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    • Sledgehammer
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:32pm

      Well, the birds know! sorry couldn’t resist.

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    • crazytalk
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:36pm

      HARRP…unusual amount of earthquakes in October without a fault line in Guy, Arkansas…6.2 miles deep…18 miles away from Bebee. Have fun.

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  • exdem
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:31am

    Biblical proportions.

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  • mikenleeds
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:29am

    folks read your bible , we are in the end times

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  • In-God-I-trust
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:29am

    Too much money in the hands of the disturbed and this is what we get.
    End the Fed and you then cut off the head of the snake.

    http://www.truth-it.net/federal_reserve_conspiracy.html

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  • brknhrt
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:21am

    The US govt has done biological testing against the American people before, but I had hoped we were beyond that. I will say that I had to spend time in New Roads, and there was an overwhelming feeling of evil there. I hope I never have to go back there.

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    • TAXLORDCOMETH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:56pm

      No, the evil is now fully entrenched, and we allowed it to happen.

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  • loveoursoldiers
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:17am

    I guess this makes me wonder if they have managed to suppress information so much that even people who would leak this info can’t even get it.. hey Assange.. why don’t you do something useful and LEAK THIS INFO?

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:40am

      LOL, seriously! Who cares about interoffice memos about the size of somebody’s butt! Let’s post the answers to all these conspiracy theories! I‘m sure he’s got them….why’s he holding out? Maybe he’s getting paid off! “Give them anything but the truth!”

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:12am

    something fishy is up here. THIS story REALLY bothers me.. The dead birds and fish didnt just happen because of fireworks something else is at hand here and I do NOT like the thoughts I am having

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    • IntegrityFirst
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:20am

      Ladyizshy, don’t forget the underwater fireworks to explain the dead fish…

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:44am

      Ladyizshy, I think it’s obvious. The birds collided with the Arm of God that Glenn told us all about a few weeks ago. Case closed. Start praying – on your knees preferably.

       
    • TAXLORDCOMETH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:00am

      Everyone should write their Members of Congress and Senate and let them know we are not going to accept these ridiculous official explanations for these strange occurrences. We are demanding the truth about what our government is doing with scaler weapons technology and chemtrails. The top secret military is totally out of control.

      I’ve heard government officials blame chemtrails on chaff from Air Force planes on maneuvers. Uh huh — that doesn’t explain the chemtrails all over Europe, Africa, and South America that appear on a weekly basis. Didn’t know Zimbabwe had an Air Force.

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  • S_Malc13
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:08am

    I wonder if it has anything to do with the virus that’s been sweeping the country. I had it, and I never had anything like it before.

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  • loveoursoldiers
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:04am

    all lies.. they know what happened but they have been told what to say and what not to say.. we are doomed when no one will speak the truth even though they know what they are being told to do is wrong.. wrong.. wrong

    we are now living a nightmare that I never thought could or would happen in this country.. totalitarianism

    I‘m guessing it is the latest in terrorist activity and we know they don’t want us to even think there are terrorists

    at the very least they are hiding something.. this is not just a freak occurrence

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:21am

      I agree the government knows exactly what happened,it was a test only a test,an expermint for what reason i don’t know but sure makes ya wonder

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    • mrclean
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:45pm

      The geese, the bees, and now the birds and fish know………

      People are next on that list of “knowers”

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  • civilunrestnow
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:01am

    What has not been reported is the massive fish kill in the Chesapeake Bay. It looks like millions of small fish died from North of Baltimore all the way south almost to the MD/VA state line.

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  • scguitar
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:58am

    Most likely chemical experiments. Classified obviously for security reasons. Probably why we haven’t heard about it from the government.

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    • psst
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:10am

      I tend to agree.
      It may be for military purpose.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:05am

      scguitar, the birds were killed by blunt force trauma.

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    • Sickofstupid
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:28am

      The chemtrail thing is embarrassingly stupid. I’ve seen many pictures, paintings depicting “chemtrails” that pre-date the aviation capabilities needed to spray chemicals at these altitudes. They’ve always been there. That’s really all there is to it. Also, how would those supposedly responsible for this blanketing of chemicals avoid contaminating themself? Would’nt they require bio-suits and resperators to walk the street? We do share the earth. Air moves. Eventually the culprits would fall victim to their own poison, right?

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    • Sickofstupid
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:32am

      And one more thing. Why only one species here, one species there? Wouldn’t the wide spread introduction of harmful chemicals kill an array of animals?

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  • critterbait
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:58am

    PA PSU Centre County killed Starlings mid summer 2010 to pervent bird strikes at the airport by spraying..
    MAYBE just practice ????

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  • donh2
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:55am

    Its an OMEN. The birds are black. They died coincidental to New Year. Their bodies fell onto a street named “ New Road”. God speaks in mysterious ways.

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    • stmike
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:34am

      Oh wow that’s spooky. Good point

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    • mrobillard
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:38am

      Maybe not an omen…they actually died on Jan 3, falling on a highway near a town called New Roads.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:17pm

      Are you absolutely sure of that? That is something that certainly adds another dimension. But if 5000 fell then they would be on many roads…correct?

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:45am

    Prepare to outlaw fireworks in 3-2-1..

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  • Ronko
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:40am

    I think this is a sign from God that we need to change or else.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:55am

      Ronko, do you ever wonder why God is such a cagey fellow? Always communicating through little strange and indirect ways and hiding in the shadows, whispering in our ears like some guy selling stolen watches on a street corner. As supreme beings go, God sure seems to be a bit sneaky and shy, don’t you think? Dressing up like a burning bush to talk to Moses? What was that all about? Now He’s killing a bunch of little black birds he created, hoping we’ll all start thinking the end times are here. “PEOPLE WAKE UP. SEE THE DEAD BIRDS IN THE BOONIES? KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING HERE?” Clever huh? They don’t call Him “SUPREME” for nothing kid.

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    • tithonia1
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:18pm

      beckisnuts, it seems you have all the wise-crack answers but no solutions, typical of most liberals, actually. You’ll be in for some recanting of your nay-saying thoughts before long. Buckle up, la-la boy!

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    • Grady Curve
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:54pm

      To “BeckisNuts”… While you have the right to your opinion, your ability to continually attack people who believe in God on this site has become out of hand.. while you have the freedom to be you, we also have the freedom to be free from you.. If you do not believe in God that is your own right and you will answer for that when you are judged by God alone, until then if you continue to attack Christians on this site we will ask for you to be blocked… go back to the huffington post where you belong…

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:16pm

      Signs and wonders will I believe come in all kinds of forms. Our weather for 2010 was the most aggressive in a generation and some have called these events 1000 year events. Jupiter got slammed by and earth size object in 6/2010 and notable changes are occuring to the visible plants. Omegaletter.com. There is something also going on with us. You and me. A stress is occurring amoung the people and anxiety of something coming. People are having bizarre dreams and some related to Obama himself. God is not sneaky nor is he impotent. He does however try to get out attention by not screaming at us but through the subtle vioce of his Holy Spirit. You see God does not communicate directly with us as sinners. It isn’t until we acknowledge his son Jesus that we receive the Holy Spirit and this spirit melded with our own awakens us to the supernatural occuring around us everyday. Any Christian will tell you that the moment they received this spirit from God which is everything Holy and Divine that they immediately fell under attack from evil who try to undermind Gods will that we be saved. We have the choice! Serve him or serve this world. A choice not to serve him is automatically by default a choice for this world which lives in darkness since our falling away from God.

      All I can say is get to know him and soon. Please watch the story of Mickey Robinson and or Ian McCormick regarding their individual near death experiences and the revelation that God is a heart beat away.

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    • dontbotherme
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:21pm

      beckisnuts- You are mocking God. You do not know Him. You are not making fun of us, you are making fun of Him. You are showing your hatred & disdain towards God, not us. This is your choice. What do you believe in? What do you live for? Who do you make happy? Who do you bring joy to? God brings joy to billions of people. Again, who do you bring joy to? What about hope? Who do you bring hope to? God brings hope to billions. He is calling you out of the darkness by name. Come to Jesus & you will find peace. He’s calling your name.

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  • GEW
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:36am

    My sister lives in ARK. She says this and the fish death is something that has been questioned before in this area. said that the government has done testing in that area with some weapons and also that where the fist are is a large fertilizer factory. In other words, this number of birds 2000 to 5000 falling from the sky all at once is something to be considered as just not fireworks disorientation.

    Strange. But don’t have an answer for this one, maybe Stephen King does.

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    • TAXLORDCOMETH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:54am

      That explanation is an insult — but they believe the American people are dumb enough to believe anything. You are right — something strange is going on. We have reached the point where we can no longer trust our government to tell us what they know. They have their own agenda, which may or may not be in our best interests.

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    • MamaofJ5
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:33am

      taxlordcometh– there was a time you believed our government? Really? Do you think in the past 100 years they have ever been straight with us about anything?

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  • benrush
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:35am

    http://educate-yourself.org/ct/#intro

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:56am

      good post BEN

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:41am

      Thank you Ben. My cat needed a good belly laugh this morning. Chemtrails indeed.

       
  • Chett
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:33am

    weird stuff happens, but more, so soon, so close – well something strange is happening.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:31am

    Hey Gore, you did it! You win! You saved the Earth! Can you say “Global Cooling!”

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  • Independent Tess
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:29am

    Sorry, but hundreds of birds don’t die of disease and starvation ALL AT ONCE, dropping like stones so that they litter the ground.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:29am

    The numbers of dying birds are decreasing.

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  • GeauxAlready
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:27am

    That’s nothing you should see opening morning of duck season. 500,000 Coonasses with shotguns a thing of beauty.

    Most likely got caught up in bad weather(hail, strong wind) no big deal move on people

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    • EgoBrain
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:40am

      100 tons of dead fish in Brazil.
      Yaaaaa, nothing to worry about.

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    • mrclean
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:35pm

      Bad weather ?? Nothing natural occurring here folks.,,,,,,,,,,

      The latest report I heard on the radio at 2pm central is something got into the birds to cause their blood to clot. Death by stroke.

      Hmmm, we suspect government chemical testing….. and the targets are very species-specific………. could be bad weather or fireworks? …….. Common sense alone says gov up to something here. Some alien chemical will show up in the birds’ blood or tissue BUT will the truth be forthcoming? Of course not.

      Just the same ol’ story here, government preparing to attack we the people.

      The geese, the bees and now the birds know……………….

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    • uncivilized
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:53pm

      Oh for pity’s sake – “their innards were liquefied”. “Their blood clotted up and they died from strokes.” Chemtrails. Alex Jones (seriously??? Alex JONES???)
      Really, y’all – think for a minute. What do you supposed happened to all the chemical dispersants and raw oil and other goodies from the Gulf oil spill? Just – vaporized, huh? Vanished into thin air? No, probably not. All that garbage went somewhere. And fish gotta swim, and birds gotta drink, and I’m thinking they got into some serious chemical crap and died. Bad enough. Not, however, a sinister conspiracy just waiting for a posse of tinfoil-hat wearing super sleuths to unravel it.

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  • DagneyT
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:26am

    obama folks experimenting with ways to control WE THE PEOPLE? hmmmm

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:07pm

      Well if it were fireworks wouldn’t the Fourth of July kill more than New Years? Just asking. (I don’t by the “official” explanation)

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  • Moocephus
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:26am

    there will be signs…

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:39am

      And some will be installed without the proper permits. Call the zoning department and pray for forgiveness!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:21pm

      @Bnuts

      Take my challenge friend. Watch Mickey Robinson or Ian McCormicks storys of Near Death experience. They have professed God ever since. Both were athiests. Both are believers and their experience will change your life. It completes the full circle of my experience of this life and I now know without any doubt that there is a place of utter evil prepared for us and another place that is beyond words. Just check it out. You only have your very soul at stake here. So take heed my friend. To heed.

      God Bless you.

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  • benrush
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:22am

    Google “chemtrails”.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:34am

      total red sky in the mornings ? East to west

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:34am

      Pfft….fireworks don’t make anything drop dead….Trust me on this, because when I was setting mine off the other night, I was observing my mother-in-law very closely……and sad to say, she is fine.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:37am

      Google “delusional fools.” You’ll see a lot of braying jackasses like Alex Jones and his ilk.

       
    • SHTFMilitia.com
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:40am

      Went to GA last week from here in NC.

      There were many birds on the side of I-85 too and that was BEFORE fireworks.

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    • Hefsmaster
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:46am

      I have been paying close attention now for about 6 months. There are chemtrails. But the pattern gets better. They seem to concentrate the most on the western suburbs. In a north to south pattern about 30 miles west of minneapolis , st.paul. They stretch from shakopee to maple grove the most. Go check it out on a map. None of the other people ever point out the relationship between trails and population centers. But if more people actually took notice. They would probably notice a western chemtrail front that looks purposefully placed for weather dispersal over major city’s.

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    • TAXLORDCOMETH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:50am

      Chemtrails didn’t cause this problem, but I would suspect scaler weapons are at work. There is a covert weather war going on between Russia, US, and China vis-a-vis scaler weapons, and we are all caught in the middle of it. These weapons can cause large-scale weather events or even earthquakes. The HAARP system in Alaska is capable of focusing a gigawatt of energy on a single target. It‘s so powerful it can even lift the Earth’s ionosphere for a brief time. Scaler weapons have basically made nukes obsolete, which makes this whole START treaty talk pure theater. There are thousands of pages on this stuff out there for people who want to know what is really going on.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:52am

      Check this one out from Drudge headlines:
      http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-mass-bird-and-fish-die-off-connected-to-government-testing.html

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    • tjdavid21444
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:56am

      Put on your tinfoil hats, boys, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. There is no such thing as “chem trails.” No matter how much Alex Jones wants there to be some big conspiracy, the simple fact of the matter is that what you see trailing behind jets is water vapor, and depending on the prevailing winds, those trails may dissipate quickly or, they may linger a while. There will turn out to be a perfectly reasonable SCIENTIFIC explanation for the birds dying.

       
    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:20am

      Some scientists(my cousin/brother-in-law Cletus and myself) have a new theory: we believe that these birds are are from a particular species known as Progressivus Flappius. These birds REFUSE to land anywhere except in the Northeast or West Coast parts of the country…..thus, when they attempt to fly from one coast to the other, they die from exhaustion about half-way there. It’s just a theory…..

      TXPILOT, I believe that we have the same mother-in-law……

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    • EgoBrain
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:49am

      I’m getting a little concerned here.
      I’m not buying that this is a common occurrence,and I really, really hate living with suspicion.

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    • JESUS-IS-LORD
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:38am

      So are all you going to deny God all the glory again? I am not surprised. Mankind is a selfish, arrogant and deceiving fool most of his life. Just keep making up stupid explanations like you always do, never giving God the glory for His marvelous work. He will not be mocked! Pray to Him and to forgive you for your ignorance like usual. Praise be to God! Amen.

      JESUS-IS-LORD  
    • ShineTheLightBrighter
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:55am

      Guess what folks, these birds fly and roost in flocks. We have had some pretty severe and unexpected whether in the past couple of weeks. If thunder clouds can keep hail up in the air until it reaches the size of a lemon I am sure it can scoop up a flock or two of roosting or flying birds and knock them around pretty good and drop them in a group just like hail drops.

      The birds are just laying there for the taking, if you think it is a “government test” grab one and pay for a lab to do independent test on the bird. Remember the simplest answer is usually the correct one.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:20pm

      If you stop in Pointe Coupee Parish for lunch don’t order the gumbo!

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    • GdavidH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:20pm

      More dubious proof of global warming.
      Where was Algore and his wrist-rocket?

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    • TAXLORDCOMETH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:47pm

      Connect the dots — strange birds and fish kills in Ark and Louisiana. 2 days later John Wheeler — an Air Force Deputy who had written books on biological and chemical warfare is found dead in a dumpster. Be wise as serpents!

       
    • ZZTOP
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:53pm

      These birds organs were liquefied with no physical outward signs of anykind. The reports of lighting or fireworks, or hail killing these birds shows us how stupid the government thinks we are. Yes, some form of experiment, whats scary is the fact that they can pinpoint the red wing black birds and the one specie of fish is quite disturbing….

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    • heyjim55
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:10pm

      That’s a fact and there was some heavy chem trails reported in Texas over the weekend and before so ??

       
    • avenger
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:07pm

      I am waiting for 500,000 liberals to fall from the sky….

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    • Diane999
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:44pm

      There is a rational explanation for this, people, but you can bet there is also a cover up to go along with it. The 100 tons of dead fish washing up on Brazil’s coast….. I guess we have a part of the puzzle of what happened to the largest oil spill in history. It went somewhere, and I’d just about be willing to bet my last dollar that the oil spill and the fish kills are related somehow.

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    • johncinque
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:49pm

      google HAARP

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    • USA_Exceptionalism
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:12pm

      Evil is afoot

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    • we.r.done
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:59pm

      TXPilot…. guess i will save some money and not buy those fireworks for the 4th…moving to plan B….

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    • MR_ANDERSON
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 2:56am

      Gosh, I told Al Gore he should have went with the birds, but he kept saying that Polar Bears are better for TV…

      “One thin september soon…”

      (Sarcasm intended)

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:23pm

      As Glenn says … You can’t trust the media ….
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/5331030483/

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