More than 1,000 turtle doves fall from the sky in Italy in latest mass bird death cas

**Bangyai** · 08-01-2011, 12:37 PM

After cavalcades of dead birds and fish from Arkansas and Texas to Sweden and New Zealand, tests are being carried out on the bodies of turtle doves in Italy after hundreds rained down near Ravenna.

The forestry commission have picked up more than 1,000 turtle doves as well as other birds including pigeons Photo: WWF
By Nick Pisa, Rome 7:27PM GMT 07 Jan 2011

For the last five days wildlife experts and officers from the forestry commission have picked up more than 1,000 turtle doves as well as other birds including pigeons.

Yesterday alone 300 corpses were recovered with all of them having a blue tinge to their beaks, which scientists say indicates poisoning or hypoxia which is lack of oxygen that can confuse animals.
The incident in the town of Faenza in northern Italy comes after a series of similar cases across the world in the United States and Sweden.

It is not just birds that have been affected, with millions of dead fish also washing up on river banks and coastlines.

The turtle dove case is the largest incident to have hit Europe so far – in Sweden 50 jackdaws were found dead. Italian officials said they expected results from the tests on Monday.

Most of the birds have been found around an industrial estate on the outskirts of Faenza but others have also been found closer to the centre in trees and on roads and pavements.
One local newspaper covering the incident wrote: "Let's hope it is poisoning or an illness because that would be easier to deal with than it being a sign the world is coming to an end."
Massimo Bolognesi, of the local World Wildlife Federation, said: "We first started getting reports on Sunday and since then they have been coming in every day.
"We have collected more than 1,000 turtle doves corpses but there is also the odd pigeon as well and all of them have this blue tint to their beak which could indicate poisoning or hypoxia.
"Tests are being carried out on the bodies by the local forestry commission and we should get the results next week but it's the numbers that make this such a notable event and for the moment it is a mystery."

More than 1,000 turtle doves fall from the sky in Italy in latest mass bird death case - Telegraph

**Bangyai** · 08-01-2011, 12:40 PM

**Gerbil** · 08-01-2011, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Bangyai

One local newspaper covering the incident wrote: "Let's hope it is poisoning or an illness because that would be easier to deal with than it being a sign the world is coming to an end."

Bit of an understatement there.

The Cat · 08-01-2011, 12:59 PM

I'm just waiting for a green fascist to come out and blame it on "global warming"

**Norton** · 08-01-2011, 01:03 PM

Run, run! It's happening all over. Apocalypse has begun.

Dead birds falling from the sky, dead fish washing up in the sea - is this the end of the world?

The signs are there for all to see – the end of the world is coming.

Dead birds are falling from the sky, lifeless fish are washing up on the shore… in America’s deep south, religious leaders are preaching that the Apocalypse is here.

It started with some 3,000 red-winged blackbirds tumbling from the skies above the small town of Beebe, Arkansas, shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve.

And a week later, a river 125 miles away was flowing with the silvery dead bodies of up to 100,000 drum fish.

From the United States to Sweden, from Britain to Brazil, bizarre cases of birds, fish and even crabs dying en masse have been reported in the past two weeks.

Explanations have ranged from lightning and hail, fireworks or power lines, to far-fetched Government cover-ups.

In Arkansas, dead birds were “littering the streets, the gardens, everywhere,” said Robby King, a state wildlife officer.

“It was hard to drive down the street in some places without running them over.”

The carcasses were scraped up and sent to be tested for toxins and disease.

At about the same time, hundreds of miles north on the Maryland coast of Chesapeake Bay, tens of thousands of dead spot and croaker fish also washed up.

Dead birds falling from the sky, dead fish washing up in the sea - is this the end of the world? - mirror.co.uk

**Gerbil** · 08-01-2011, 01:09 PM

Personally, I'm expecting zombies to start showing up any day now.

**Anton Barr** · 08-01-2011, 01:19 PM

The Mayans predicted it a long long time ago.

2012 phenomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**phunphin** · 08-01-2011, 01:42 PM

UFO's are testing death rays in preparation for an invasion.

**spikebs4** · 08-01-2011, 01:50 PM

maybe a change in the earths magnetic core /birds/fish/radar-g.p.s.systems all gone tits up ..

**Butterfly** · 08-01-2011, 02:16 PM

yeah, like that hollywood movie

or maybe it happens more often than we think and it's under reported,

**Cujo** · 08-01-2011, 02:17 PM

definitely something fucking wierd going on.

**Butterfly** · 08-01-2011, 02:17 PM

Alien invasion

In late 2009, rumours began circulating in UFO forums on the internet that SETI had detected several city-sized spacecraft headed towards Earth, often citing a particular image from the Digitized Sky Survey as evidence.[102] In December 2010, an article appeared in examiner.com, again citing the photograph, and stating that a high-ranking SETI researcher named "Craig Kasnov" had reported that three "flying saucers", each tens of kilometres long, would arrive in Earth orbit by December, 2012.[103] This article was referenced in a number of mainstream news outlets, including the English language version of Pravda.[104] Although no-one named Craig Kasnov could be located at SETI, Craig Kasnoff, a computer programmer contracted to help design the seti[at]home project, stated that he had never made the reported claims.[103][102] Astronomer and debunker Phil Plait noted on his blog that the supposed UFO photograph bore more resemblance to a bit of grit or a defect in the photographic plate.[103] Also, he noted that by using the small angle formula one could determine that, were the object in the photo as large as claimed, it would have to be closer to Earth than the Moon, which would mean it would effectively have already arrived.[103] In January 2011, Seth Shostak, chief astronomer of SETI, issued a press release debunking the claims.[105]

**Davis Knowlton** · 08-01-2011, 02:19 PM

Why birds and fish? Why not Soi dogs? And all my neighbors' dogs.....

**Butterfly** · 08-01-2011, 02:19 PM

excessive gas concentration in sky ? radiation ?

**Anton Barr** · 08-01-2011, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Dug

definitely something fucking wierd going on.

The aflockalypse.

**Norton** · 08-01-2011, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Why not Soi dogs? And all my neighbors' dogs.....

Birds only the first sign. Hounds of hell sign is next I believe.

**Davis Knowlton** · 08-01-2011, 02:41 PM

^Excellent.

**spikebs4** · 08-01-2011, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Why birds and fish? Why not Soi dogs? And all my neighbors' dogs.....

because all them fkers end up outside my place 3am howling...

**Butterfly** · 08-01-2011, 06:04 PM

could be religious nutters dumping dead birds from a small plane to make a point,

**Anton Barr** · 08-01-2011, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by Butterfly

could be religious nutters dumping dead birds from a small plane to make a point,

What point would that be making?

**Bangyai** · 08-01-2011, 06:24 PM

Most of the posters on here won't start worrying until bar girls start dropping from the sky, and even then , they'll just put a mattress out for the good lookers.

**DrB0b** · 08-01-2011, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Gerbil

Personally, I'm expecting zombies to start showing up any day now.

Where have you been for the last 20 years? Zombies now make up the majority of the world's population.

**ItsRobsLife** · 08-01-2011, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

Explanations have ranged from lightning and hail, fireworks or power lines, to far-fetched Government cover-ups.

Why would a Governmment cover-up be so far fetched..?

**spikebs4** · 08-01-2011, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

Originally Posted by Norton

Explanations have ranged from lightning and hail, fireworks or power lines, to far-fetched Government cover-ups.

Why would a Governmment cover-up be so far fetched..?

chem-trails come to mind ..

**PaulBunyon** · 08-01-2011, 07:19 PM

It's depressing that birds and other animals disappearing. It's all a big joke when animals die.

I may be a devil but if 4 billion people dropped dead I would feel a bit more positive about the future of things on Earth.

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