Ongoing Mass Deaths

Upon waking up many people found 100 of dead birds, believing they were just some more of the string of mysterious mass deaths that have taken place globally in the early part of 2011.

The United States government quickly took responsibility for killing hundreds of birds in Yankton, South Dakota.

When some 5000 birds defecated in the feed meal of a feedlot, it posed a serious danger to both the animals and farm workers. USDA authorities decided it was necessary to kill the birds with bait, laced with poison DCR-1339.

Authorities had not anticipated the birds would travel nearly 10 kilometres, before dying.

Normal reports of mass deaths average around 3.4 per week. The beginning of 2011 has seen this number greatly exceeded globally. Authorities say the deaths are not connected, but have both local authorities and scientists baffled. They include:

United States of America
•Lack of oxygen is thought to have caused the death of 1000s of gizzard fish washed up on Chicago's lakeshore
•It is thought pneumonia, infectious bovine rhino tracheitisor, or some other highly infectious disease, may have been the cause of the death of 200 cows on a farm in Wisconsin.
•5000 blackbirds, were supposedly traumatized from New Year Eve fireworks, Arkansas, causing the birds to fly into stationary objects
•2 million fish died in Maryland from extreme cold, combined with overpopulation and lack of oxygen
•Also in Arkansas, 100,000 dead bottom-feeding drum fish washed up on river banks. Disease is believed to be behind the deaths
•500 small birds fell out of the sky in Louisiana. Wildlife veterinarian claimed an estimated 450 birds that died near Baton Rouge may have flown into a power line
•300 grackles, a type of blackbird, fell on the side of a highway in Alabama, and around 100 on the side of a California highway.
•Thousands of fish were found floating in Spruce Creek in Florida
•10-20,000 gizzard shad dead in Lake Meredith, Texas, due to toxic algae bloom
•200 birds were found dead on a highway bridge in Texas
•Charleston saw hundreds of dead jellyfish and starfish washed up on the beaches. Extreme cold was blamed
•Massachusetts, New Jersey and South Carolina had to deal with millions of dead fish from record-breaking cold temperatures
•In Louisiana approximately 500 blackbirds and starlings littered a short stretch of highway
•Kentucky also reported mass roadside deaths. Many believe that a semi-truck or other vehicle was responsible for the deaths, as the birds appeared to have broken beaks and backs
•Dozens of pelicans have washed ashore, shot, bludgeoned and decapitated in North Carolina. This mass death was obviously human in origin
•70 bats found dead in Arizona had been shot with a BB gun.
Canada:
•Around 80 pigeons died on a farm near Quebec City
•Hundreds of shad fish washed-up dead in Sarnia, Ontario, on the St. Clair River, just across the border from Detroit

Haiti:
•On the beach in Haiti dozens of dead fish washed up
Brazil:
•Almost 500 penguins washed up on the beaches of Brazil. Scientists say the animals starved to death
•200 tons of mainly sardines washed up on beaches in Paranagua

Japan:
•100s of dead fish have been discovered in Japan
Asia:
•1000s of fish died in India’s Yamuna River. Dumping of industrial waste and chemicals were thought to be the cause
•Naklua Canal, Thailand, thousands of sucker fish died
•150 tonnes of red tilapias died in Don Thap, Vietnam on 41 fish farms through polluted water from ebb tides, which lowered the oxygen levels in the overcrowded pens

Middle East:
•1000s of fish died in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea, Iran
New Zealand:
•As a carpet of dead fish floated out at sea 100s of dead snapper washed ashore on the Coromandel beaches in New Zealand
Australia:
•Tens of thousands of fish died in Jarvis Bay. The weeks of heavy rain are being blamed

Europe:
•Around 40,000 dead crabs washed up on England's beaches, thought to have succumbed to the extreme cold
•100's of dead fish were found in a pond in Manchester, England
•In Sweden around 100 jackdaws died from what appeared to be external blows causing internal bleeding
•Over 1,000 turtle doves and pigeons fell out of the sky in Italy. Possible cause was poisoning, or lack of oxygen.
•Italy also saw dozens of starlings die after overeating grapes left over from the wine-making process
•Romania also experienced hundred of deaths as birds, understood to have died from alcohol poisoning from an overdose of left over grapes.

Director of bird conservation at the Audubon Society, Greg Butcher, said "Mass bird die-offs can be caused by starvation, storms, disease, pesticide, collision with man-made structures or human disturbance ... Initial findings indicate that these are isolated incidents that were probably caused by disturbance and disorientation".

In numerous instances the cause of death may never be clearly known. Many people are beginning to ask if this is the commencement of the fulfillment of various prophecies in the Bible? Someone has dubbed it 'apocalypse', while conspiracy theorists blame government experiments. There are some scientists who believe that recent events may be a world-wide disaster, or caused by testing of biological weapons.