8,000 Doves dead in Italy, strange blued beaks

Mystery of mass animal death epidemic deepens after 8,000 turtle doves fall dead in Italy with strange blue stain on their beaks By WIL LONGBOTTOM Last updated at 3:45 PM on 7th January 2011 Comments (465) Add to My Stories Blue stain believed to be sign of poisoning or hypoxia - lack of oxygen that is precursor to altitude sickness ~~ At least nine incidents of mass animal deaths across the globe Hundreds of confused birds plummeted to their deaths in multiple locations in the U.S. Rapid movement of Magnetic North Pole towards Russia may have caused bird deaths 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 www.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. Mystery: Experts said they believed the blue colouration around the doves' beaks may indicate poisoning or lack of oxygen Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344913/Animal-death-mystery-Two-MILLION-dead-fish-wash-Maryland-bay.html#ixzz1AQ9VDDaV Fibre System Plus (30 packets/box) http://shaperite.my4life.com/shopping/productdetail.aspx?mode=0&iid=224&cid=198 • Contains 27 herbal extracts to provide thorough, comfortable intestinal cleansing and purification • Provides the perfect gastrointestinal cleanse to start any nutritional regimen

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