8,000 doves fall dead in Italy with strange blue stain on their beaks
Friday, January 7, 2011
, Posted by Tyree at 7:20 PM
Mystery of mass animal death epidemic deepens after 8,000 turtle
doves fall dead in Italy with strange blue stain on their beaks.
Thousands of dead turtle doves rained down on roofs and cars in an
Italian town in the latest in a growing spate of mass animal deaths
across the globe.
Residents in Faenza described the birds falling to the ground like
'little Christmas balls' with strange blue stains on their beaks.
Initial tests on up to 8,000 of the doves indicated that the blue stain
could have been caused by poisoning or hypoxia.
Mystery: 8,000 turtle doves fell to the ground dead
in Faenza, Italy, and were found to have a blue stain around their
beaks Shock: Residents described seeing individual doves fall from the
sky, before groups of 10 or 20 began hitting roofs and cars
A witness told Dallas News, Dallas Information, Dallas Events - Examiner.com | Examiner.com 'We have no idea why this happened all of a sudden.
'The doves just started falling one-by-one then in groups of 10s and 20s.'
Hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, is known to cause confusion and illness
in animals. It is also a common precursor to altitude sickness.Experts said results from tests on the doves will not be available for at least a week.
They said that cold weather could have caused the birds' deaths as the
flock was swept into a high-altitude wind storm before falling to the
earth. It comes after two million dead fish were found to have washed
up on shores in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
The alarming find is being blamed by authorities in Maryland on the
stress caused by unusually cold water and overbreeding among spot fish.
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