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Index of Subjects --000e0cdfc8fab1dc130498f789ea Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Getting confused and flying into each other...sounds totally bizarre and I don't buy it. I know they have sent many of the birds for autopsies....which I think was starting today. Most of the deaths of that number that I have heard of were from hail storms in the higher flight paths or from poisoning... I guess I'll wait for the autopsies... Helene On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Gayle MacLean <duartess2003@yahoo.ca> wrote: > Know this is off-topic to the intent of this group but it is a nature > question, though not within NS. > Just watching the news report from Beebe, Arkansas about the many (looked > like, anyway) Red-winged Blackbirds that were found dead all over their > town one morning. > Some have surmised that somehow there might have been mass confusion within > the flock while in the air, for some reason, and they flew into each other > causing their deaths. > Anyone have any theories as to why and how, something like this can happen? > > Gayle MacLean > Dartmouth > > -- Helene Van Doninck DVM Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre RR#1 Brookfield NS B0N1C0 902-893-0253 birdvet@hotmail.com www.cwrc.net 2011 Wildlife Calendars Now Available http://www.cwrc.net/images/2011_calendar/CWRC_2011_Calendar_lo_for_web.pdf Online order form : http://www.cwrc.net/2011_calendar.shtml --000e0cdfc8fab1dc130498f789ea Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Getting confused and flying into each other...sounds totally bizarre and I = don't buy it. I know they have sent many of the birds for autopsies....= which I think was starting today. Most of the deaths of that number that I = have heard of were from hail storms in the higher flight paths or from pois= oning...<div> <br></div><div>I guess I'll wait for the autopsies...</div><div>Helene<= br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Gayle Mac= Lean <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:duartess2003@yahoo.ca">duartes= s2003@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" = border=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td valign=3D"top" style=3D"font:inherit"><div>Know= this is off-topic to the intent of this group but it is a nature question,= though not within NS.</div> <div>Just watching the news report from Beebe, Arkansas about the many=A0(l= ooked like, anyway) Red-winged Blackbirds=A0 that were found dead all over = their town one morning. </div> <div>Some have surmised that somehow there might have been mass confusion w= ithin the flock while in the air,=A0for some reason, and they flew into eac= h other causing their deaths.</div> <div>Anyone have any theories as to why and how, something like this can ha= ppen?</div> <div>=A0</div> <div>Gayle MacLean</div> <div>Dartmouth</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br></blockquote></div><br><b= r clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>Helene Van Doninck DVM<div>Cobequid Wildlife Reh= abilitation Centre</div><div>RR#1 Brookfield NS B0N1C0</div><div>902-893-02= 53</div> <div><a href=3D"mailto:birdvet@hotmail.com" target=3D"_blank">birdvet@hotma= il.com</a></div><div><a href=3D"http://www.cwrc.net" target=3D"_blank">www.= cwrc.net</a></div><div>2011 Wildlife Calendars Now Available</div><div><a h= ref=3D"http://www.cwrc.net/images/2011_calendar/CWRC_2011_Calendar_lo_for_w= eb.pdf" target=3D"_blank">http://www.cwrc.net/images/2011_calendar/CWRC_201= 1_Calendar_lo_for_web.pdf</a></div> <div>Online order form :</div><div><a href=3D"http://www.cwrc.net/2011_cale= ndar.shtml" target=3D"_blank">http://www.cwrc.net/2011_calendar.shtml</a></= div><div><br></div><br> </div> --000e0cdfc8fab1dc130498f789ea--
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