Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts

Thursday, 6 January 2011

40,000 dead crabs washed up on Kent coastline

After the 1,000 dead birds, here we are with 40 times the toll this time, crabs. More than 40,000 Devil crabs were found along beaches along with dead starfish, lobsters, sponges and anemones.


Experts believe the crabs died from hypothermia after the UK’s coldest December in 120 years.The crab deaths are the latest in a series of mass animal deaths all around the world.

Apart from the dead birds we have reported, there have been also thousands of dead fish which have been found floating in a creek, Florida. While in Texas 200 American Coots were discovered dead. 

Same situation in a different country. In Brazil, 100 tons of sardine, catfish and croakers have been wash up dead near Parangua.

In Sweden, something like 50 birds have been found dead in a street in the city of Falkoping.

Back in the UK, bookies are taking bets on which country will face the next animal 'Apocalypse'.

Monday, 3 January 2011

1,000 Blackbirds drop dead in sky above US town!

MORE than 1,000 blackbirds have dropped dead while flying over a town.

Wildlife officials think they may have been struck by lightning or hail, or they may have died from stress caused by New Year’s Eve fireworks.

The flock fell in a mile-square area on Friday in Beebe, Arkansas.




Wildlife officer Robby King collected about 65 dead birds, to be sent for testing to the state’s Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Wisconsin.

Ornithologist Karen Rowe doubted the birds were poisoned as they showed physical trauma.

She said birds have died like this elsewhere but tests were inconclusive.