To Kill a Black Bird
Marvin X walked through the muck and mire of hell and came out singing like a black bird and cleaner than white fish!
--James W. Sweeney
We think the Mother Ship might be the cause of the dead black birds and white fish!
--Paul Cobb, Publisher, Oakland Post Newspaper Group
(Newser) – The town of Beebe, Ark., is home to about 4,500 people—and about the same number of dead birds. State wildlife officials went door-to-door today to collect the creatures from rooftops, trees, and yards. Officials estimate that between 4,000 and 5,000 birds—mostly blackbirds—began tumbling from the sky late on New Year's Eve and into the day yesterday. Officials remain stumped.
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To see a blackbird in your dream, signifies a lack of motivation. You are not utilizing your full potential. Alternatively, it represents jealousy.
To see a flying blackbird in your dream, signifies good fortune.
Mass La. bird deaths puzzle investigators
LABARRE — Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists drove over and around them.
State biologists are trying to determine what led to the deaths of the estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings on La. 1 just down the road from Pointe Coupee Central High School.
The discovery of the dead birds — some of which were lying face down, clumped in groups, while others were face up with their wings outstretched and rigid legs pointing upward — comes just three days after more than 3,000 blackbirds rained down from the sky in Beebe, Ark.
Necropsies performed Monday on the birds in Arkansas showed the birds suffered internal injuries that formed blood clots leading to their deaths, The Associated Press reported.
In Louisiana, biologists with the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spent part of the day Monday scooping up some of the birds in Pointe Coupee Parish to be sent for testing at labs in Georgia and Wisconsin.
The remaining carcasses were still on the roadway, on the shoulder and in drainage ditches Monday afternoon as some motorists sped past, flattening birds lying in the roadway, while other drivers slowed down to gawk.
State Wildlife Veterinarian Jim LaCour said he planned to drive to Pointe Coupee to pick up some of the bird carcasses to study.
Lab tests could take several weeks to come up with an explanation for the deaths, and LaCour declined to speculate on possible causes; however, he did say massive bird deaths have been known to occur in the state in the past, albeit in smaller numbers.
“Underlying disease, starvation and cold fronts where birds can’t get their body heat up” have caused similar occurrences “in various species over the years,” he said.
LaCour said some of the bird samples will be sent to the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Center in Wisconsin for analysis.
USGS spokesman Paul Slota said Monday afternoon he was unaware of the mass deaths in Louisiana, but he expects bird samples taken from the Arkansas occurrence on New Year’s Eve to arrive Tuesday in Wisconsin.
Slota also declined to speculate on a cause for the deaths, but he said a search of USGS records shows there have been 16 events in the past 30 years involving blackbirds where at least 1,000 of the birds have died seemingly all at once.
“These large events do take place,” he said. “It’s not terribly unusual.”
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Dead Fish Appear In Lincoln Park
LINCOLN PARK, Mich. -- Hundreds of dead fish have been found in a pond in Lincoln Park. When passed onto the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, a representative from the office identified them as gizzard shad, a fish belonging to the herring family.
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Black Bird
ReplyDeleteBy Zahieb A. Mwongozi
Black bird
on the high tension wire
why must you warble madly
singing songs of moot rebellion
while Bogey spits black & white cliche reveries ancient ghost tough guy prisoner bound
in a cathode ray tube
I wanna kill your song
to line my lumpy pillow with your feathers
feed your bony carcass to my caged black cat
a man with no land can't plant no tree for you.
Black bird
on top of the red white and blue flagpole
Respect my wish for slumber
must you go on singing
your songs of muted rebellion
Caw! Caw! Caw!
as the icey cold wind slices through my door jam
I wanna kill your song
to fill my empty pockets with your feathers
a man with no land can't plant no grain for you.