That's horrible.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/2015 03:44AM by steve benson.

Sad. I hope they figure it out/contain it.

When I walk my dog and see migrating birds, I say, "birdies" and she looks up to the sky to watch them in formation... >>>>>>>

Didn't something like this happen a few years ago, with

thousands of birds falling from the sky? I don't think it

was snow geese but I'm not sure which kind it was. Does

anyone know?

saucie Wrote:
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> Didn't something like this happen a few years ago,
> with
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> thousands of birds falling from the sky? I don't
> think it
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> was snow geese but I'm not sure which kind it
> was. Does
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> anyone know?

Are you thinking of the Blackbird deaths in Beebe,AR?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/01/dead-blackbirds-by-the-10_n_1178421.html

Does ring a bell. Think it was in Australia iirc.

I watched some recent footage about the 'algal foam' phenomenon off the PNW coastline. A natural occurrence that can be deadly to birds who land in the briny bubble bath which washes their protective oils away leaving them to perish from hypothermia.

Mother nature may also be the perp in the Idaho die off, otherwise I fear our goose may be cooked.

That pun was fowl

The paper reported that it was thought to be Avian Cholera


Here's a link : http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/17/us-usa-idaho-dead-geese-idUSKBN0MD09620150317

I hate to hear this stuff.

birds are not supposed to get sick ?

Well yeah they get sick , I just hate to think of thousands of

them dying in droves and falling from the sky. I don't like it.

My dad owned, for four years. Officials said it was an incurable virus
And came in and locked the gates, could resale or salvage any marterial they were contaminated, white foam plastic on the ground
It can't be farmed. Four other ranches were closed that year, said it was bad eggs from the hatchery - all infected. Closed that too.

Birds get sick.

I feel horrible about the geese, why don't they land, maybe rest a while in a pond or lake instead of flying until they fall out of the sky. Instinct. Sad. I wish nature were more kind.

12 gauge steel shot.

only because lead shot is outlawed.

I don't hunt birds anymore (only the clay variety...don't have to clean 'em and don't have to eat 'em) but I'm told steel doesn't kill as cleanly as lead on waterfowl. So lead gets outlawed on environmental grounds and more birds are wounded as a result.

Ron Burr

hope they find out what's making the birds sick

Nor in Idaho did an interview about this. Person in the case said there was no evidence they fell from the sky. Indeed they died on the ground from Cholera and it is not that unprecedented.

NPR.

It's unusual, but from a cholera the birds may have gotten from eating contaminated food.

The dead snowgeese can spread it to other birds who feed on their carcasses, and so on.

The news did mention it is uncommon for it to spread to humans.

There's a bird flu spreading in China that could lead to a pandemic. Don't know whether there's a relation between that and the snow geese, but could there be?

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cold-flu/h7n9-bird-flu-mutating-china-threatens-pandemic-n321721