MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

A massive wild bird kill is reported from a Beijing suburb.

Dozens of dead blackbirds, mallards and magpies have been found along the banks of the Xiaojing River, according to the Huang’jiu Ribao newspaper.

A staff member of a centre for hygiene and epidemiological control does not rule out that the birds have died of starvation and unfavourable weather conditions.

Mass bird deaths for no obvious reason has been registered in Sweden, the United States, Italy and Canada since early this year.

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It was a mystery of sorts in Oregon Thursday morning. People who live along Maumee Bay in one neighborhood woke up to find nearly two dozen dead ducks on the shore. The birds showed no signs of trauma. Other geese and swans in the water seemed to be fine. No one knows what could have killed them.  Read more.

Sempronius buffalo farmer Peter Head has lost 55 animals to a mysterious illness since October, but autopsies have shown no clear cause of death. “We’re going nuts down here trying to figure out what’s going on,” he said. “This is going to put me out of business. That’s half my frickin’ herd.” Head and his wife Deborah have run PDH Buffalo Farm on Route 41A for nine years. This year, 17 of his 23 calves died and he has stopped selling meat as a precaution.  Read more.

This is now beyond weird – its plain spooky. Reports of mass animal deaths keeps coming in. Any plausible explanations, however, is totally absent. On Tuesday, 200 cows was found death on a farm in Portage County, Wisconsin, USA. Cause of death is yet to be determined. Yesterday a large number of dead, half rotten, fish was found floating in the area around Stjernøya in northern Norway. And here neither fishermen or authorities are able to figure out what kind of fish it is.  Read more.

In Turkey, there was a case of an unexplained mass deaths of birds.  Dead starlings found residents of the county Karacabey in Bursa province. On the road were dozens of carcasses of birds. Promptly reported the incident to local authorities launched an investigation of the incident.  Read more.

Michigan officials say thousands of dead fish found in the Lake St. Clair area likely died because of the cold weather.  The state Department of Natural Resources and Environment says Friday that large numbers of gizzard shad probably died because of the lengthy, cold winter. State officials say they’ve collected samples and had them analyzed, and they don’t suspect a fish virus or bacterial disease is to blame.  Read more.

Turistas de Máncora informaron sobre la aparición de cientos de pequeños peces muertos en la playa. El dato fue confirmado por la directora regional de la Producción, Cecilia Vilela, quien indicó que se ha reportado este mismo hecho en toda la franja costera de Piura, desde Negritos hasta. Read more.

Mass fish death was recorded in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea,” Iranian Gulistan Province’s Nature Conservation Department Deputy Head Mohsen Jafarnejad said.  Mass death of fish in the Caspian Sea is recorded on the west coast of the Gulistan Province. A large number of dead mullet have washed ashore, Shomalnews.com reported.  Read more.

A farmer in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures has found about 80 dead pigeons on his farm 20 kilometres west of Quebec City.  Sylvain Turmel first noticed the dead birds in his field on Dec. 18.  “I found two dead birds in the morning, which is normal, birds sometimes die,” he said.  “But when I came back one hour later, another 25 had fallen,” said Turmel.  Read more.

There are reports of dozens of dead birds in the Boonie Doon area.  “I can’t believe there’s so many dead birds out here,” resident Peter Hoscin tells Global Edmonton. “I don’t know what’s going on. I’ve never seen anything like this.”  Read more.