all the dead fish and birds in Arkansas whats up

[paulaswolfpack]

If this did have something to do with the Nuke plant in Russlleville will they tell us,This area I know pretty well as my dad has lived there his whole life.
Whats wierd is that they were found on same day I did a search and came up with several articles.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=ut...arkansas&type=

[fishhead]

If it was radiation or chemical poison it would kill most species of birds and fish. One exemption might be if the flock of blackbirds ate something toxic on their migration.

[meanwhile]

It sounds "fishy" to me! .....i need coffee

[golden]

I found one report that said the birds were likely due to a lightning strike or maybe fireworks - wouldn't they show obvious signs of that (singed feathers, etc). It also stated that the fish and bird incidents are not related - ok...seems a little odd to me that the 'officials' aren't willing to consider the possibility.

Melissa

[Txrider]

Originally Posted by golden

I found one report that said the birds were likely due to a lightning strike or maybe fireworks - wouldn't they show obvious signs of that (singed feathers, etc). It also stated that the fish and bird incidents are not related - ok...seems a little odd to me that the 'officials' aren't willing to consider the possibility.

Melissa

A hail storm can knock out flocks of birds as well as kill ground based animals..

[Alice In TX/MO]

On the badly done national report I saw, they were claiming thousands of dead birds due to ????? fireworks ?????

[Harry Chickpea]

Sully is in a revengeful mood?

[mekasmom]

I would never believe it was fireworks. Maybe a lightening strike? doubtful though.

[bergere]

Had tons of Fireworks by the neighbors at the old farm... all the neighbors. So why didn't all the birds die? That is beyond silly.
Same with hail storms.

Reminds me of the Canary in the coal mine.
That many birds dying all at once is most likely airborne.

Gov most likely knows what happen and are not going to tell us the truth.
They are not going to say.. Ooppss.. sorry..we were working on something and well.... ah... that stuff got out because x wasn't paying attention...and we accidently killed all those birds and etc..
Telling the general public the truth, isn't in their policy.

[Patt]

Looks the fish kill was above Russellville. And it only killed drum fish which is weird. Birds are in Beebe and that is over north east of Little Rock. Actually their description doesn't make a lot of sense if the Arkansas river section was in northwest AR. Have to see if I can find both events on a map.

[Patt]

Originally Posted by bergere

Had tons of Fireworks by the neighbors at the old farm... all the neighbors. So why didn't all the birds die? That is beyond silly.
Same with hail storms.

Reminds me of the Canary in the coal mine.
That many birds dying all at once is most likely airborne.

Gov most likely knows what happen and are not going to tell us the truth.
They are not going to say.. Ooppss.. sorry..we were working on something and well.... ah... that stuff got out because x wasn't paying attention...and we accidently killed all those birds and etc..
Telling the general public the truth, isn't in their policy.

It's a very poorly written article but I think they meant fireworks woke the birds up and caused them to fly out of the trees and hit something. Course the only thing I can think of big enough for 3,000 birds to fly into in Beebe would be a UFO....

[bee]

Well,,, so were there thunderstorms in the area at the time of the bird kill to produce hail??

And is either area close to GUY Arkansas...you know the place that has had hundreds of small earthquakes going on for months now??

[Patt]

Ok the fish kill is between Ozark and Clarksville. That is above Russellville so couldn't be water contamination from Nuclear 1. Geographically they really are not anywhere near Beebe because there are mountains, rivers and lakes in between. There is no water connection to Beebe though. So I highly doubt they are connected. The bird one is really weird!

Should be a busy week for Fish and Game that's for sure!

[Patt]

Originally Posted by bee

Well,,, so were there thunderstorms in the area at the time of the bird kill to produce hail??

And is either area close to GUY Arkansas...you know the place that has had hundreds of small earthquakes going on for months now??

Actually yes it is quite close to Guy. And now that I am thinking about it you kind of scared the crap out of me. My biggest concern living here is that the New Madrid fault will go off sometime soon. Strange animal behavior before a quake is pretty amply documented.....

[ladycat]

This is too strange. Only one species of bird and one species of fish.

Here's the preliminary veterinary findings on the blackbirds.

First tests suggest midair collision, but why still isn't certain; number raised to at least 4,000

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40885546...s-environment/

Midair collision over an area that wide?

[Patt]

So they all ran into each other now according to the state eh? Yeah right!

As for the storms all of them had rolled through here by 3pm so it wasn't lightning or hail.

[Zephaniah]

An Alien Death ray gone askew?

[Old Vet]

I remember this happening once before. They were not able to give a reason for it then(during the 1950's). It was in the spring and no thunderstorms around.If I had to guess it will be a occasion of them turning around and hitting each other. It doesn't happen a lot but it can happen.

[Old Vet]

In the fish kill the drum is one of the easiest fish to kill. It will not be hard to find out what killed them. Usually the lack of oxygen will kill them before other fish.

[OkieDavid]

On the fish- mostly large fish leans toward low oxygen (they need more O2 than small fish). Mostly small fish leans toward chemical poisoning (smaller concentration required to kill them).
Regarding the birds- With one species being affected, I'm leaning toward intentional/accidental poisoning..... Someone probably threw out some old treated corn and they got in to it.