From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department. Climate change is now blamed for what is called “Gary Larson events” in homage to the famed creator of the comic strip “The Far Side”
“We saw birds dying of what at best could be called Gary Larson events,” said Mark Mallory of the Canadian Wildlife Service in Iqaluit. “You see a bird for apparently no good reason fly into the cliff and die. You’ve got to be kidding.”
Of course, only MSNBC could be relied upon to report such scary science news. Here’s the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36202287/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Now I understand how the bird tragedy shown below happened.
We just didn’t look closely enough for a the cause of why the birds went crazy back then.
Look for a sequel soon. Ed Begley Jr. is being considered for the lead male actor role.
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Birds are funny, their eyes are on the sides of their heads to watch for predators, so they’re actually not that great at seeing where they’re going. Except for birds that are predators, o’course.
You mean birds, lemmings, President Ubama citizenship, and the Moon Landing are all hoaxes along with computer programs from GreenPiece?
Damn shame these birds are not Canada Geese.
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LOL and yet 40 years ago they were treasured relics of a rural age. Now they’re shitting on our lawn!
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Tasty, properly cooked. Don’t ask, don’t tell.
Come on, Charles! You can’t let facts get in the way of a good cliche’! I mean, everyone KNOWS that full moons cause people to do strange things, just ask any cop or ER nurse… /sarc
It’s early May and there is snow on the ground in the photo. No wonder the birds were suicidal.
In relation to that, I have my own theory of why birds behave the way they they do when you approach them in an airplane. Unless they are heading straight at something they have no parallax information so distance is initially based on only recognizing what the object is and how big it is. So they first notice you, just a weird looking bird on an intercept course with them, they turn away to head in an opposite direction. But because they have no genetically imprinted information concerning the size of ‘airplane birds’ and no parallax information from one eye, they think you are much closer to them and smaller than you actually are. Thinking you are very close also makes them initially think that you are going slow. But after they turn and see you with their other eye, they are startled that there is another airplane bird(!), and a much bigger one, that somehow snuck up behind it. So it turns back to its original heading only to find that it was wrong about airplane bird number one – it’s actually huge and closing fast! So it then goes into panic mode, draws its wings in and drops like a rock.
So that’s generally what most birds do when you are heading toward them in a small airplane – turn, turn, sometimes turn one more time, rarely turn even a fourth time then panic drop.
Just a theory.
What is this MSNBC you speak of?
I sort of suspected something, when one of the lemmings “jumped” in a flat spin. Sort of like someone was throwing it.
Burrowing owl deaths? The highest I saw one fly was about 6 feet, over a fence.
Strangely there is no mention of climate change in this story…
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/7045188/aerial-mating-dance-goes-awry/
Birds are exceptionally sensitive to changes in geomagnetism. There have been changes recently. Also, if they eat mountain ash berries (which don’t grow in Iqualuik afaik) they sometimes get fermented berries, become drunk and fly into stuff.
Birds should stop flying into buildings