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The birds showed signs of physical trauma, leading one ornithologist with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to speculate the blackbirds might have been killed by lightning, high-altitude hail or possibly fireworks. The birds were sent to laboratories in Georgia and Wisconsin for necropsies to determine the cause of death.
The Beebe, Arkansas bird deaths were repeated again on New Year's Eve of the following year, 2011, with the reported number of dead birds being 5,000. [14] On 3 January 2011, more than five hundred starlings, red-winged blackbirds, and sparrows fell dead in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. [15]
The largest source of human-related bird death is due to glass windows, which kill 100–900 million birds a year. The next largest sources of human-caused death are hunting (100+ million), house cats (100 million), cars and trucks (50 to 100 million), electric power lines (174 million), and pesticides (67 million). [19]
On its website, The American Bird Conservancy, referenced three studies, which showed, an estimated low of 140,000 bird deaths, up to 679,089 on the highest end.
Researcher Eve Thomason, of Boise State, autopsied “every single bird” discovered by teams in four states. “And because of that, she found stuff that was unexpected,” a fellow researcher said.
Wildlife experts in at least six states are investigating the cause of the bird deaths. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
[citation needed] Overall, as of 2010, wind turbines were estimated to cause about one-tenth of a percent of all unnatural bird deaths in the United States each year. [ 8 ] [ better source needed ] A 2013 survey of published studies estimated that the total number of bird kills for all single-pole turbine wind farms in the United States was ...
February/March 2006 - A dead cat infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus was found in Germany. [26] Hans Seitinger, the top agriculture official in the southern state of Styria, Austria announced that several still living cats in Styria have tested positive for H5N1: [27] February 2006 - H5N1 infection killed up to five cats and 51 chickens in ...