Death By Thousands Not An unfamiliar Occurrence

Birds and sea life dying all of the hundreds of thousands is a frequent occurrence right throughout the world.

Arkansas authorities say 5,000 blackbirds died following traumatization by New Year Eve fireworks, though the main cause of death is still under investigation.

Arkansas residents were forced to also deal with 100,000 bottom-feeding dead drum fish, which washed up along the Arkansas River, at a 20 mile much. Scientists believe the fish were killed a result of transmitted disease.

A representative for that Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said 'Dead birds have been sent to two individual labs to obtain toxicology reports'. Almost 500 small birds, including starlings, dropped onto a Louisiana Freeway. It is claimed the birds have died from electrocution from power lines.

Maryland saw the death of two million fish that washed up on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. The coldest December in two-and-a-half decades is considered to have caused extreme stress to an already overpopulated species.

Along the Sc coast, State Wildlife officials reported hundreds of thousands of dead fish washed ashore.

Dead fish washed up on the coasts of Pontal do Pontal do Parana, Guaraquecaba and Antonina, Brazil. 200 tons of mainly sardines were discovered on the beaches of Paranagua.

As Fishery officials in New Zealand commenced to investigate the mass deaths within a carpet of dead snapper that washed up on the beach of Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, they warned the public the fish were unfit for human control.

Over a 1000 turtle doves, and also pigeons, fell out on sky in Italia. The birds had a blue tinge to their beaks, which scientists affirm indicated poisoning, or hypoxia, a lack of refreshing.

Sweden officials believe 50 - 100 jackdaws, found dead, died from external blows which caused internal bleeding.

40,000 dead crabs washed up on beaches in Great britain. Scientists believe the cause was extreme cold conditions.

All of the above incidents of mass death took area in the first 50 % of January 2011.

There have been 2900 mass deaths, across different species, between 1984 and 2009. The American Geological Service's website recorded about 90 mass deaths of birds and other wildlife just from June through December 2010.

In England in March 2010, the many starlings tumbled off the sky into single front garden. The birds had blood oozing from their beaks and claws tightly curled.

Two hundred dead seagulls tumbled out of the sky in Australia, for the second time in 7 months, during 2007. The cause of death was considered to become chemical or pollutant. The birds put together close to water outfall pipes.

Five thousand birds died in December 2007 in the coastal town of Esperance, 500 km south of Perth, Australia. It is considered they were poisoned by lead carbonate blowing through the town, as developed being transported using the town to Esperance Port, for move. It is also reported that there were potentially dangerous amount of lead in the blood of both local adults and kids at the time.

It took five months, in 1999, to get detecting an E. coli infection of atmosphere sacs in their skulls of several thousand grackles, which fell in north La.

In January, 1976 the largest die-off of fish was around 15 million, through either the die-off of microorganisms, or a drop in dissolved oxygen levels.