I have some old Ohio Conservaton Bulletin magazines from the 30's and 40"
and I will have to look but i am sure I read articles in there where they
went in to crow roosts and set off charges and killed them by the hundreds.
Russell Lima, Ohio
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From: "Linda Sekura" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 11:17 AM
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Fwd: Arkansas bird deaths - "Illegal fireworks likely
cause"
Jan 4 "Audubonmagagine.org" article (fwd from CT listserve --> PA-BIRDS
listserve). Link in forwarded email. Excerpts:
Illegal Fireworks Likely Cause of Massive Arkansas Blackbird Deaths
The loud noises, combined with birds’ poor night vision and large winter
gathering... led birds to crash to their deaths. That’s the Arkansas Game
and Fish Commission's “strong working hypothesis.”
(On New Year's Eve) At 10 p.m., residents heard several extremely loud,
“window-shaking” noises that are believed to have come from
professional-grade fireworks, which no one had permission to set off. The
blasts came from an area near the birds’ winter roost. ~15 minutes later
several folks went outside when they heard the whooshing wings of a
blackbird flock flying at its normal fast speed. “But instead of the birds
being above treetop level, like they usually are, they were at rooftop
level... They crashed into houses, cars, trees, mailboxes, shrubbery.
Everything around.”
Blackbirds don’t usually fly at night. The big booms apparently flushed the
birds from their roost, and then poor eyesight and disorientation stymied
them from making it back safely. “Necropsy report shows trauma primarily to
the chest... Hemorrhaging in the body cavity, bruised skulls, blood clots
in brain. It’s consistent with crashing into something rather than falling.”
The death toll is difficult to estimate because feral cats, raccoons, and
other scavengers likely made a meal out of the fallen creatures.
It appears that similarly mysterious bird deaths in Louisiana around the
same time are unrelated. “Initial findings indicate that these are isolated
incidents that were probably caused by disturbance and disorientation,” says
Greg Butcher, Audubon's director of bird conservation.
FULL ARTICLE, BELOW.
Linda
216-598-0113
-----Original Message-----
From: Wiltraut, Richard E <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 9:11 am
Subject: [PABIRDS] Bird deaths
From the Connecticut list serve
Subject: Probable Cause of Death of Arkansas Birds
rom: Frank Mantlik <mantlik AT sbcglobal.net>
ate: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 18:37:28 -0800 (PST)
ere's National Audubon's analysis of the cause of death:
ttp://magblog.audubon.org/illegal-fireworks-likely-cause-massive-arkansas-blackbird-deaths
rank Mantlik
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